RouteConfig.cs for older (2008), now converted (2013) Visual Studio Project?

Question

I have a Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET Web Application.  I'm using Visual Studio 2013 now, so this older project was converted.  Great!
But, to get around some Crystal Reports issues, they have suggested doctoring RouteTables.Routes.  They are thinking specifically of making adjustments to it inside of RegisterRoutes (RouteConfig.cs).  But let's take a step back:
When someone creates a brand new project in VS2013, you see this in Global.asax:
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
Then when you look at "RegisterRoutes" (RouteConfig.cs), you see:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
var settings = new FriendlyUrlSettings();
settings.AutoRedirectMode = RedirectMode.Permanent;
routes.EnableFriendlyUrls(settings);
OK.  So who is using RouteTable.Routes?  I bet in a brand new VS2013 project, one that creates this RouteConfig.cs template, some underlying code is examining RouteTable.Routes and doing something with it.  But I'm not so sure about an existing
project, that was converted.  That's the situation I'm in.
Now, because I had this older project, I didn't have a RouteConfig.cs.  But that's OK, it looks like I can do this in Global.asax.  So I can do something like this:
public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
RouteCollection routes = RouteTable.Routes;
var settings = new FriendlyUrlSettings();
settings.AutoRedirectMode = RedirectMode.Off;
routes.EnableFriendlyUrls(settings);
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.aspx/{*pathInfo}");
Applying both of the suggested fixes (I tried just one - the change to RedirectMode.Off, then the other - adding routes.IgnoreRoutes, then trying both - and neither three worked, or fixed the issue).  This is why I'm questioning if I can do what I'm
trying to do with a converted project.  Again, wouldn't the underlying architecture have to know to do something with RouteTable.Routes?  For this to work?  Would I get that functionality on a converted project vs. a new project?
Thanks!

Answer 1

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