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Asked: 2026-05-11T23:31:55+00:00

I’m having a tricky issue (bear with me as I’m new to MVC) with

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I’m having a tricky issue (bear with me as I’m new to MVC) with trying to use a controller (and a route subsequently) with the name PropertiesController.

I believe this is because there is a directory (which I can’t really remove) called “Properties” in my solution. Is there a way round this?

The route setup is just one simple route:

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

and the error I get in IIS7 when requesting “http://localhost/aptment2/properties/” is:

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Surely there is a way round this that I just can’t find? Cheers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since someone else is having the same problem, I’m guessing that you’re running into a reserved keyword here (I imagine ClassControllers are out as well).

    It’s not the first time it’s happened either – digging deeper into the internals of the environment, you can’t route to Windows’ reserved keywords either.

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