Deploying ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 with Areas

Question

We have moved from MVC 2 Preview 1 to MVC 2 Preview 2 to use multi-project areas. Everything works fine on the local dev machine (Visual Studio 2008 SP1 / IIS 7), however it does not work after publishing to the server (Windows Server 2003 / IIS 6).

Deployment is performed using the Build-> Publish option in the VS2008 menu. I also added wildcard display in IIS.

The IIS server functioned properly in the past when it was an MVC 2 Preview 1 project.

It seems that IIS needs to be configured differently to handle MVC routing with multiple zones?

Another observation: the directories views \ areas \ *. * in the main area are not copied to the IIS server during deployment.

Has anyone successfully deployed and configured a multi-project scope solution for IIS 6?

UPDATE: We needed to add an additional line in Web.config for WebResource.axd

<httpHandlers>
                <remove verb="*" path="*.asmx" />
                <add path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" validate="True" />
…
</httpHandlers>

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Answer 1

The Visual Studio deployment function does not know about hidden files copied using the Areas build task because they are not added to the VS project of the main area.

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