VS2013 Browser Link “The controller for path '/9ac086a69364466a841e03e001f946fd/arterySignalR/ping' could not be found.”

Question

Since updating to VS2013, we receive this error when running our (MCV4) web app:

The controller for path \'/9ac086a69364466a841e03e001f946fd/arterySignalR/pi         


        

Answer 1

I disabled browser link. Second #4 at this link.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/06/28/browser-link-feature-in-visual-studio-preview-2013.aspx

Answer 2

Add the following to your root web.config:

<appSettings>
    <add key="vs:EnableBrowserLink" value="false" />
</appSettings>

Answer 3

If you would like the benefit of Browser Link but don't want the missing controller path exceptions, you can add an ignore regex to your route collection. This is what I did:

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

#if DEBUG
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{*browserlink}", new { browserlink = @".*/arterySignalR/ping" });
#endif

    //...
}

The regex technique is courtesy of this Phil Haack post.

Answer 4

Had in VS2013, after some project nuget package updates.

Cleaned the solution, closed VS and IISExpress from try and resolved

Answer 5

This happens to be a known issue with SignalR and has been fixed in SignalR 2.0.1 and 1.1.5:

2.0.1: https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/2569 (not yet released)
1.1.5: https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/2570 (not yet released)

Long story short, nothing you can do to change it, should just wait for the next release of browser link which has a newer version of SignalR.

Answer 6

On VS2013 @Todd's solution didn't work for me, so I made my own.
Hope it saves you some time.

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
#if DEBUG
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{*browserlink}", new { browserlink = @".*__browserLink.*" });
#endif
}