Debugging an ASP.NET MVC site and ASP.NET MVC Source Code

Question

I have been given an app written by someone else and the error I get when I try to just launch the thing and the first look at it is:

"There is no source code available for the current location."

I could care less about the source code to ASP.NET MVC. How do I tell my project to show me the location where it is breaking in "my" code?

Update:
The message I get after this initial error is "no controller named ~"

After all this the app still works. Its just really slow. Any ideas?
Each page request goes through this cycle in debug mode.

Jeremy · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-06 00:22:20Z

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This is going to be a routing issue. Can you please post the RegisterRoutes method in the Global.asax?

If it is using the default, then a request is being made to http://sitelocation/~/somethingelsehere.

My guess is there is a reference to a url like "~/Public/default.aspx".

answered Nov 6, 2009 at 0:22

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That was it a url ref like "~/something"

bytebender · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-05 19:27:18Z

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Some basic things to check:

Edit:

What does the Global.asx.cs page look like? Can you post some code? I am wondering if it's somewhere in the routing...

answered Nov 5, 2009 at 18:17

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