Dynamically Create ASP.NET Content Pages

Question

• Is it possible with ASP.NET Master Pages to create content pages dynamically? That is, I know we can create content dynamically, but the content pages themselves, can those be created programmatically? I want to give my users the ability to define new content pages (i.e. Categories: Sofas, Tables, Lamps, and add/delete as they see fit) through a management panel. The resulting content pages should have proper URL naming, so that they index properly. An example: http://www.example.com/products/Lamps/contentpage.aspx.
• Is there a demonstration of this somewhere I can view?

Answer 1

Your question is something people struggled alot back then, but these days are much better with a few technologies.

ASP.NET MVC to the rescue! With that, you can have your friendly URLs map to your dynamically created content, so if a user creates a new "Lamp" in the "Products" category, it will be accessed via http://yourhost/Products/Lamp

ASP.NET MVC uses the .NET Routing to accomplish those URLs, and you can use that without a ASP.NET MVC itself if your project have those restrictions. If you cannot use .NET 3.5, go with another URL rewrite tech.

Answer 2

Writing .aspx files into your web's folders seems like a serious security risk. If you want users to create their own pages, you might want to store this information in a database and use a VirtualPathProvider to serve up these files to the ASP.NET engine.