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The URL Shortening Service that is never gonna give you up and never gonna let you down
Rick is an URL Shortening Service, kind of like tinyurl etc. While it is intended to be a stable and working product, it is also a learning project for recently released technologies, i.e. ADO.net Entity Framework, Silverlight, Windows Azure etc.

Version 02 (December 14, 2008)
Version 02 is available here. In this Version, we are looking at the two common HTTP Redirects (301 and 302), and we will build our own ASP.net MVC ActionResult to perform a HTTP 301 Redirect.

The video for this Version is available at http://www.vimeo.com/2524188.

HTTP 302
  • Temporary Redirect
  • Not Cached by the Client
  • Will always hit your Server
  • Reliable Statistics
  • Default Method of return Redirect(url);

HTTP 301
  • Permanent Redirect
  • Clients may cache it
  • May not always hit your server
  • Unreliable statistics
  • Not supported by ASP.net MVC out of the box

Version 01 (December 13, 2008)
Version 01 is available here. As this is the first version, we are dealing with the very basic setup: Creating a MVC Project, a SQL Server database with one table, using ADO.net Entity Framework to talk to the database, one controller and some routes and views.

The video for this Version is available at http://www.vimeo.com/2517727.

Last edited Dec 14 2008 at 6:16 PM by michaelstum, version 7