Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context

Routing URLs to Web Services

The standard URL format for WCF web services is not very elegant. Here is an example from the Ajax script in the ListEvents.aspx page:

url: '/TriathlonService.svc/GetEventData',

We can use the routing feature to improve the URLs of the web service. However, what we can do is much more limited than for web pages. In essence, we can replace the name of the web service file (Triathlon.svc) with something else. We can't use routing to change the name of the web service method (GetEventData in this case), and we can't use variable segments in the routed URL.

To begin, we must add a reference to the System.ServiceModel.Activation assembly. In Visual Studio, select Project Add Reference, click the .NET tab, and select ...