MVC 2.0 Routing Issue - Url parameter not recognized

Question

In my AccountController class I have the following:

public ActionResult Verification(string userGuid)
{

    Debug.WriteLine(userGuid);
...

In my global.asax I have:

routes.MapRoute(
    "AccountVerification", 
    "{controller}/{action}/{userGuid}", 
    new { controller = "Account", action = "Verification", userGuid = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

When I go to http://localhost/Account/Verification/123 ... theres no debug output... its not recognizing the parameter - which is my problem. Not sure what I'm missing.

I do want this parameter to be optional... if its not set then I return a different view.

Edit: When I place a Debug.WriteLine("hello world"); in the Verification function, it does output it so the routing appears to go to the correct function.

Edit Again: The default controller is still present but I wouldn't think it would hit that route since it uses a different controller / action

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

Answer 1

The route you have given us should match this - what other routes have you defined above it? It may be being picked up by a different route.

Answer 2

The RouteDegguer will help identify which routes are being picked up.

Answer 3

Put this definition at the top and see if it still doesn't work. first step to debugging routes