Default.aspx not getting executed in ASP.NET project with MVC sections

Question

My app is mainly an ASP.NET app that I'm adding an MVC section to it.

My Default.aspx (no codebehind) page has a simple Response.Redirect to a StartPage.aspx page but for some reason MVC is taking over and I'm not getting to the StartPage.aspx page. Instead I get routed over to my first and only MVC section which is a registered route that I've registered in the global.asax.cs page (Albums).

Is there a way to tell MVC to leave my requests to the root "/" to be my IIS 7 default document...in this case Default.aspx?

This is what is in my RegisterRoutes: routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); routes.MapRoute("Albums","{controller}/{action}/{id}",new { controller = "Albums", action = "Index", id = "" });

Answer 1

If you remove the default controller from your second route there, it won't match against "/" anymore and Routing will ignore requests for "/", leaving them for the usual ASP.Net pipeline to handle

So, change your routes to:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); 
routes.MapRoute("Albums","{controller}/{action}/{id}",
     new { action = "Index", id = "" });

That should solve your problem!

Answer 2

You could tell the MVC to ignore the Default.aspx like this:

routes.IgnoreRoute("Default.aspx");