Question

this could be seen as a follow-up to this SO question here. Now we have moved on more than a year and ASP.NET MVC2 comes along without a default.aspx

I must have done something to my project in that when I hit the root, the server lists the directory and does not route through my default route. The Routing seems to be accepted, though, as calling /Home goes to the default action {controller}/Index. When I start the ASP.NET MVC2 template, default routing works.

However, I cannot see any differences right now.

What have I done? Deleted some magic setting in the web.config or anything else?

Thanks for any pointers.

EDIT:
This is my route mapping –

  routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
  routes.MapRoute(
    "Link", 
    "link/{id}",
    new { controller = "Link", action = "Index", id = "" },
    new { controller = @"[^\.]*" }
  );
  routes.MapRoute(
      "Default", // Route name
      "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
      new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

Answer 1

The issue that resulted in this situation was completely unrelated to ASP.NET MVC. By some incredible c***-up in the solution configuration the web project wasn’t built, but the project is started nonetheless, with a stale dll that has nothing to do with your development.

Make sure your app is built and you will most likely see expected results!