This is a small note for people trying to play with the MVC framework , and that are currently using Windows XP. If you dislike the ASP.NET development server that comes by default with Visual Studio as much as I do, you've switched your MVC application to work against IIS already. WinXP is running IIS 5, and you'll notice that the routing will stop working for you once you make that switch. For instance, a request for /Products/Categories , where Products is a controller and Categories is...