URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0

Microsoft have finally announced a URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0. I had to use either Apache mod_rewrite or a third party module for IIS. So why is this so great? Well, we can provide the end-user of a web page a friendly URL, which is is the most important thing for me. We can make a query string, which is easy for web developers to understand (http://mydomain.com/article.aspx?articleid=123422&language=en) and make intuitive so the user can actually use the “query string” directly to navigate the site (http://mydomain.com/articles/123422/en)

Using rewritten URL, you can draw a virtual hierarchy of the site and content structure, and make the query string look like subfolders. It makes much more sense to the users and it can act as a breadcrumb.

This is one of the many usages of the URL Rewrite modules. I will not cover them here, but you can read this example to get into it. I am just pleased to give my end-users friendly URLs.