Question

Having issues getting myself started on MVC3

Trying to define a simple route here in Global.asax

routes.MapRoute( _
  "MeGet", _
  "me", _
  New With {.controller = "MeController", .action = "Show"}, _
  New With {.httpMethod = New HttpMethodConstraint("GET")}
)

routes.MapRoute( _
  "MePut", _
  "me", _
  New With {.controller = "MeController", .action = "Update"}, _
  New With {.httpMethod = New HttpMethodConstraint("PUT")}
)

And My controller is as follows.

Public Class MeController
  Inherits System.Web.Mvc.Controller

  '
  ' GET: /me
  Public Function Show() As ActionResult
    Dim stuff = {"Hello", "World"}

    Return Json(stuff, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet)
  End Function

  '
  ' PUT: /me
  Public Function Update() As ActionResult

    Return View()
  End Function

End Class

And all I get is…

The resource cannot be found.

no stack trace.

Following Suggestions

Changed Controller to _me and tried the Route Debugger

Now it says there is NO MATCH! but below it says it matches the current request…

Answer 1

Public Class _me
    Inherits System.Web.Mvc.Controller

must become:

Public Class MeController
    Inherits System.Web.Mvc.Controller

in ASP.NET MVC convention dictates that controller class names are suffixed with Controller. I don’t know why did you put an _ before your controller name, it is against conventions but if you ever decide to keep it you will have to reflect this in your route definitions as well.

Also in your routes replace:

.controller = "MeController" 

with:

.controller = "Me"

so that your route definition looks like this:

routes.MapRoute( _
  "MeGet", _
  "me", _
  New With {.controller = "Me", .action = "Show"}, _
  New With {.httpMethod = New HttpMethodConstraint("GET")}
)

routes.MapRoute( _
  "MePut", _
  "me", _
  New With {.controller = "Me", .action = "Update"}, _
  New With {.httpMethod = New HttpMethodConstraint("PUT")}
)