Different url based on development environment with C# MVC

Question

I have two MVC web applications, a www.company.com and a solution.company.com

The website www.company.com include links to solution.company.com/Contact but how can I set

Answer 1

The solutions proposed are good but a lot of overhead just to switch one url IMHO.

I would take the environment variable approach and set the url accordingly.

Contact.cshtml

@{
    var env = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("MY_APP_ENV");
    var url = env == "prod" ? "http://qa.solution.company.com/Contact/" :
              env == "qa"   ? "http://solution.company.com/Contact/" :
                              "http://localhost:88/contact/";
}

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If this is a big project and you can invest some time, I would put this in appSettings and set up parameters.xml for each environment and use it during deployment.