Making a short URL similar to TinyURL.com

Question

I\'m building a new web app that has a requirement to generate an internal short URL to be used in the future for users to easily get back to a specific page which has a ver

Answer 1

I recently saw something like this on codeplex for sharepoint and they seemed to use hexadecimal numbers for the url shortener. It might be worth taking a look at how they do it here http://spurlshortener.codeplex.com/