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To redirect a page request to another page ASP.NET ships with Response.Redirect() since the v1 that takes a string Url as the input parameter.

You will recall that this is not a permanent redirect, you know that to be able to make a permanent redirect you will have to do something like this 

HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", StringUrl);

ASP.NET 4.0 now ships with a Response.PermanentRedirect() helper method that redirects the user permanently to a new page. Watch Joe’s quick hit video to see it in action.

Fortunately we don't need to wait for .NET 4.0 to have a fancy method like above, we can with the help of C# Extension methods, create a helper method today.

For example take a look at this code

public static void PermanentRedirect(this HttpResponse response, string StringUrl) {
     HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
     HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", StringUrl);
}

Now if you do a Response. you will see the static helper method in the intellisense.

Labels: .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, ASP.NET, Extension methods

# posted by Zubair.NET! @ 4:54 PM