Trying to get that default page to show up ...

I started a new VS2010 project based on your MVC3 template. I have spent a few days working on my model and getting it to a point to prove out that it will handle my various edge cases. Let me say, having come from iBATIS, NHibernate, EntityFramework and "home grown" systems, LightSpeed is a terrific modeling tool.

I am trying to get my default page to load now that I have my models and what I think are the right web.config & globla.asax configurations. Unfortunatly, all I get is:

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.  Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly. 

Granted, I have not yet created any controllers, but since I have not put any of my model entities on the views, I don't think this should be a problem.

Here are the pertinent parts of my web.config:

<configSections>
    <section name="LightSpeedContexts" type="Mindscape.LightSpeed.Configuration.LightSpeedConfigurationSection, Mindscape.LightSpeed" />
  </configSections>

  <connectionStrings>
    <clear />
    <add name="ReadingFeatDB" connectionString="valid conn string goes here" providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"/>
  </connectionStrings>

  <LightSpeedContexts>
    <add name="ReadingFeatContext" dataProvider="MySql5" connectionStringName="ReadingFeatDB" />
  </LightSpeedContexts>

And here is my global.asax:

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using Mindscape.LightSpeed;
using Mindscape.LightSpeed.Web.Routing;
using Mindscape.LightSpeed.Web.Mvc;
using ReadingFeat.Website.Models;

namespace Website
{
    public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        public static LightSpeedContext<ReadingFeatUnitOfWork> LightSpeedContext = new LightSpeedContext<ReadingFeatUnitOfWork>(@"ReadingFeatContext");

        public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
        {
            filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
        }

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
        }

        protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

            RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

            // Registers the LightSpeed entity model binder
            LightSpeedEntityModelBinder.Register(typeof(ReadingFeatUnitOfWork).Assembly);

            // Enables the use of DataAnnotation provider for LightSpeed entities
            ModelValidatorProviders.Providers.Clear();
            ModelValidatorProviders.Providers.Add(new LightSpeedMvcValidatorProvider());
        }
    }
}

My _Layout.cshtml is the default created by the template.

Any ideas as to why it is that I can't get my default page to even be found in the LightSpeed route handler?

You dont appear to be registering any routes. Are you using the WebContract approach? If so you will want to include the following in your Application_Start() method:

WebContractBuilder.BuildFromAssembly(typeof(AnExampleInterfaceOrControllerImplementingAWebContract).Assembly);

This will scan for and register any [WebContract] routes you have defined in the associated assembly. You only need to call this once for each assembly containing contract information (generally this means once total).

If you are not using the WebContract approach and going down more of the traditional handle your own routing approach provided by MVC then you will at a minimum want to restore the default wildcard route back to your RegisterRoutes method.

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

Jeremy

Grr! You are totally right. At one point, I copy-pasted a global.ascx.cs from your demo to my code and overwrote the paths, but didn't implement the interface-based replacement.

Sorry to waste your time!

Tony