[Solved] HTTP 404 - TELERIK MVC 3 Web Application (Razor)

[Jean-Philippe Guertin]

On a standard project generate from the TELERIK MVC 3 Web Application (Razor)
where everything works fine but 
If I hit the F5 key from say  About.cshtml file
I get a HTTP 404 error looking for

Requested URL: /Views/Home/About.cshtml

I don't get that on other project not using that specific template.

Any idea?

Jean-Philippe

[T. Tsonev]

Hello,

This is a limitation of Visual Studio with MVC projects. It does not know about the routing used in MVC and tries to open the view by using its relative path.

You should access the About view through the configured route. The default would be:  /Home/About

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team

[Jean-Philippe Guertin]

Hi,

How come I don't have that behavior on a MVC 3 project generate by the standard (not Telerik) template of Visual Studio 2010?
How come you don't have that behavior on your Telerik.Web.Mvc.Examples Project?

Regards,

Jean-Philippe

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Jean-Philippe Guertin,

You're correct, the default MVC project template does not try to open the current view. 

The fix is simple enough - you need to set the project start action to "Specific Page" and leave the page path empty. See the attached screenshot.

Thank you for pointing this out. We'll take care to update the template.
As a token of gratitude for your involvement your Telerik points have been updated.

All the best,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team