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

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.