ASP.NET MVC Url Route supporting (dot)

Question

I hope that you can help me with the below problem.

I am using ASP.NET MVC 3 on IIS7 and would like my application to support username\'s with dots.

Example:

Answer 1

For anyone getting an 'Cannot create abstract class' exception when using the UrlRoutingHandler approach, it's likely due to:

• Using a restricted 'path' (e.g. path="/Files/*") in your web.config declaration, and
• A folder/path with the same name exists in your project