T4MVC MapRoute doesn't work?

Question

I am trying to setup index page route. It works this way:

routes.MapRoute("", "", new {controller = "Home", action = "Index"})

but if I replace it with T4MVC:

routes.MapRoute("", "", MVC.Home.Index());

somehow it doesn't work (I get a "The resource can not be found" error). Seems like I did it millions of times and it worked. So what am I doing wrong?

Update.

I used Route Debugger and found out the difference between ASP.NET MVC route and T4MVC route is that T4MVC adds Area="" while ASP.NET MVC doesn't (it keeps only controller and action).

David Ebbo · Answer 1 · 2014-07-15T13:39:31.090

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Update (7/15/2014): as a workaround, I think you'll need to add a dummy area to your project, e.g.

Right click Project and choose Add / Area. Name it 'Dummy' (or whatever)
You can delete everything in there except for the DummyAreaRegistration.cs file

Original answer:

If you 'Go to definition' on your MapRoute call, can you check that it indeed goes to a T4MVC overload? Note that if you're in an Area, you'll need to call MapRouteArea instead.

edited Jul 15 '14 at 13:39

answered Jul 14 '14 at 14:42

David Ebbo

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It goes to T4Extensions.cs and I don't use areas – SiberianGuy Jul 14 '14 at 16:03

Sergey · Answer 2 · 2014-07-14T11:40:14.187

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Please notice that MVC.Home.Index() returns ActionResult

if you want to get name of action and controller, you have to write:

MVC.Home.Index().GetT4MVCResult().Controller - name of the Controller MVC.Home.Index().GetT4MVCResult().Action - name of the Action

Edited:

routes.MapRoute("", "", new {controller = MVC.Home.Index().GetT4MVCResult().Controller, action = MVC.Home.Index().GetT4MVCResult().Action})

edited Jul 14 '14 at 11:40

answered Jul 13 '14 at 21:13

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Why is it "not so good". What if I rename the controller or action? – SiberianGuy Jul 14 '14 at 05:39
I could not be able to find example of where we had problems with areas, but anywhere you can try this. (Probably it was mvc 3 or so, and in mvc 4 and 5 it's already fixed) – Sergey Jul 14 '14 at 11:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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The problem was caused with some problems with assemblybindings. I looked through Warnings in VS, pressed twice on the warning about assemblybindings and they were fixed. This question helped me a lot: T4MVC ArgumentOutOfRangeException in View

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Jul 16 '14 at 10:51

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T4MVC MapRoute doesn't work?

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