Few months back, I started blogging on developing a Url Shrinking Service in ASP.NET MVC, but could not complete it due to my engagement with my professional projects. Recently, I was able to manage some time for this project to complete the remaining features that we planned for the initial release. So I am announcing the official release, the source code is hosted in codeplex, you can also see it live in action over here.

The features that we have implemented so far:

Public:

• OpenID Login.
• Base 36 and 62 based Url generation.
• 301 and 302 Redirect.
• Custom Alias.
• Maintaining Generated Urls of User.
• Url Thumbnail.
• Spam Detection through Google Safe Browsing.
• Preview Page (with google warning).
• REST based API for URL shrinking (json/xml/text).

Control Panel:

• Application Health monitoring.
• Marking Url as Spam/Safe.
• Block/Unblock User.
• Allow/Disallow User API Access.
• Manage Banned Domains
• Manage Banned Ip Address.
• Manage Reserved Alias.
• Manage Bad Words.
• Twitter Notification when spam submitted.

Behind the scene it is developed with:

• Entity Framework 4 (Code Only)
• ASP.NET MVC 2
• AspNetMvcExtensibility
• Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (yes you can you use it freely in your open source projects)
• DotNetOpenAuth
• Elmah
• Moq
• xUnit.net
• jQuery

We will be also be releasing  a minor update in few weeks which will contain some of the popular twitter client plug-ins and samples how to use the REST API, we will also try to include the nHibernate + Spark version in that release. In the next release, not sure about the timeline, we will include the Geo-Coding and some rich reporting for both the User and the Administrators.

Enjoy!!!