ASP.Net MVC 2 Default.aspx

Question

I just installed the ASP.Net MVC Preview 2 so I can have a look at some of the new features.

However when I create a new MVC 2 project it creates everything but default.aspx, is this a bug or is this handled differently in version 2 to version 1? When I run the project it just takes me to the directory listing, I assume I could just copy one from an MVC 1 project?

Edit

Just to update, if I add a default.aspx to the project with the following line in its page load then the application works fine

Response.Redirect("Home/Index");

It's just the initial route reuqest that doesnt seem to go through the routing engine. This is when I'm running it from visual studio, I havent yet tried deploying to IIS.

Answer 1

You don't use Default.aspx for MVC. There is no 1 to 1 mapping of URLs to files.

Answer 2

It is not supposed to be there in ASP.NET MVC 2, you might want to check your default routes though.

Answer 3

Default.aspx is typically the default page out of the box in IIS and will conflict if not override your routing in MVC. If you need a "default" page use "Index.aspx."

Out of the box /Home/Index is the default page/route, of course you can change this in the Global.asax

Answer 4

Have updated to the latest version of ASP.Net MVC 2 and the problem went a way. So I guess either something went wrong with my install or there was a problem with that version