Question

I created a new MVC 3 project. I ran the project and it loaded the home page. I then added a new view called “discussion.cshtml”.

I have 1 controller in the Controllers folder: HomeController

EDIT I misspelled Discussion before but it’s not misspelled in my project. the problem persists.

the new view is setup in this fashion: View -> Home -> Discussion.cshtml

I added this code to the HomeController

 public ActionResult Discussion()
         {
             return View();
         }

Problem: The view did not load when I hit run. I got the 404 error. The index page loads with this url “localhost:5553”. But I tried "localhost:5553/discussion.cshtml" and it can’t find it. How do I map/route to a view. I’m not sure what’s going on, I feel like I’m missing something simple.

The Global.ascx page has the usual default code if it helps:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace MvcApplication1
{
    // Note: For instructions on enabling IIS6 or IIS7 classic mode, 
    // visit http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkId=9394801

    public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
        {
            filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
        }

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                "Default", // Route name
                "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
            );

        }

        protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

            RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

you can not do like localhost:5553/discussion.cshtml” on mvc.

right click over the Discussion action and select Add View.

if you browse localhost:5553/Home/Discussion, that will route to the view you added above.