How to do Basecamp-style accounts in Asp.Net Mvc?

Question

For an Asp.Net software as a service application, I want to do account based subdomains like Basecamp and the rest of the 37Signals products have. E.g. acme.myapp.com will load

Answer 1

Maarten Balliauw's blog covered one method extending RouteBase. I think I've also seen a custom route handler used for this.

Also, this StackOverflow question covered the same question, using a more simplistic approach.

I definitely recommend factoring this code out into the routing side rather than embedding the logic to get domain information in your controllers.