What is the Default.aspx page for in an MVC app? Does this actually execute? Does this page have anything to do with the “Default” route in the global.asax?
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What is the Default.aspx page for in an MVC app? Does this actually execute? Does this page have anything to do with the “Default” route in the global.asax?
If you take a look at the comments at the top of Default.aspx
Basically, it acts as an override for the possibility of a different default page being loaded by IIS. In IIS6 if you have an index.html in the same directory as your MVC application, it can sometimes render that file instead of looking for the default blank route in your application. Default.aspx prevents that from happening.