how do I make ASPX Web pages without file extensions?

Question

I have notice that stackoverflow.com does not have file extensions on their pages. How would I do this with an aspx web site?

Answer 1

Here's a great article from Scott Guthrie:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx

It covers off all scenarios: IIS 6, IIS7, using third party URL rewriting tools, etc.

Answer 2

The URLs aren't actually pointing to files. They're using URL rewrite rules to convert the URL to a database query and feed the output back to a specified page (whose URL isn't displayed).

Edit: For clarification SO uses MVC, so the url is pointing to a specific controller action (with or without parameters, depending on the page). The action runs some code to grab data or whatever and passes it to a corresponding view, which is basically an html template that fills in the info provided by the action and renders the page.