Question

I am using ASP.NET MVC 3. I created an area called Administration. There is no default view associated with it, so if I type in http://www.mywebsite.com/Administration then there is an error. How would I go and define a default view when the user types in the above mentioned URL? Would I need to go and create a Home controller?

I would like to have something like:
http://www.mywebsite.com/Administration or
http://www.mywebsite.com/Administration/Index

AdministrationAreaRegistration.cs has the following:

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
   context.MapRoute(
      "Administration_default",
      "Administration/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
      new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );
}

Not sure if this is possible?

Answer 1

You are about not to define default view, but default action. The code above misses the type of controller, action of which you want to use as default:

Suppose you have AdministrationHome controller.

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
   context.MapRoute(
      "Administration_default",
      "Administration/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
      new { action = "Index", controller="AdministrationHome", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );
}