Here are some tips and tricks you'll be able to use for Umbraco 7.2 CMS related developments. You'll be ready to use the following techniques to organise your Umbraco page URLs.

NiceUrl
This is the most common method for us to return a "Friendly URL" for a given node within the Umbraco content section. As explained in Umbraco, a 'Friendly url' is the complete encoded URL excluding the domain. however this relies on the settings you tack in UmbracoSettings.config file. If you set useDomainPrefixes=true in UmbracoSettings.config, NiceUrl returns the url as well as the domain.

NiceUrl with XSLT
Code for Return current page URL

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/@id)" />
This code will return hyperlink to parent page
<a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/../@id)}">
  <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/../@nodeName" />
</a>

NiceUrl with Razor
Return current page URL
@umbraco.library.NiceUrl(Model.Id)Hyperlink to parent page;
<a href="@umbraco.library:NiceUrl(Model.Parent.Id)">
  @Model.Parent.Name
</a>
Model is basically Razors equivalent of "$currentPage" in XSLT.

NiceUrl with C#
This will get the current page URL to a string
var currentNode = umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node.GetCurrent();
string pageURL = umbraco.library.NiceUrl(currentNode.Id);
This will get the parent page URL to a string;
var currentNode = umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node.GetCurrent();
string parentPageURL = umbraco.library.NiceUrl(currentNode.Parent.Id);

umbracoUrlAlias
As Umbraco explains, using the "umbracoUrlAlias" alias with a text-string property can change you to supply multiple URLs for a content node. For example if we were to enter "news,events/upcoming-events", this is able to resolve the following URLs to the same page
./news.aspx
/events/upcoming-events.aspx
Things to note: you must perpetually use umbracoUrlAlias field value in lowercase letters, not use a leading slash and not use a trailing ".aspx".