404 Error with Durandal Starter Kit and Visual Studio

Question

I have just installed the Durandal Starter Kit via Nuget and was hoping to start building Durandal apps using Visual Studio and the MVC framework. I've read a couple of articles and blog posts like this but whenever I try and set up a sample Durandal application I get a 404 error with the browser complaining: ' The resource can't be found. '

I've checked and the Nuget installation has set up DurandalController.cs and deleted the default MVC controller. The project was created as an 'ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application' using the 'Empty' template. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The problem was that the installation of the Durandal Starter Kit had created a new default controller but hadn't set it as the default route for the project.

To fix it, I navigated to App_Start/RouteConfig.cs and in RegisterRoutes() I changed the default routes.MapRoutefrom:

defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

to:

defaults: new { controller = "Durandal", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

The application worked straight away after this change.