This is a post from my new iPhone using the WordPress iPhone application. This is pretty neat.

My last post was the result of making a beginners mistake and spending a lot of time being unable to resolve the issue.  Since I am using IIS 6 on XP/2003 I have to add .mvc to my controller paths to activate the ASP.NET MVC framework on a URL.  I was doing this and my controllers were working except for the / path of the web site. 

ASP.NET MVC still needs a default.aspx in the root of the web site.  The default.aspx just performs a redirect to the URL of whatever controller you are using for the site root. I had not changed the URL that default.aspx was redirecting to.  Once I changed the URL the redirect was using my problem was fixed.  I want to give a shout out to the official ASP.NET MVC forum for the help I got there.  Its nice to see that a Microsoft product is building an actual community around this technology as that more than anything will help it grow and evolve.

Today AT&T changed the order status form on their web site and now I can’t get any information from it.  I called my AT&T store to get them to check on my iPhone 3G order and the sales person said it was still pending.  Then she dropped a new time table on me.  When I ordered my phone I was told 7-15 days and now the time frame has gone to 10-20 business days.  I guess I will check on my phone again next Tuesday as that will be the 10th business day.

I tried to start a new project using the latest ASP.NET MVC framework update and it didn’t go so well.  I ran into three issues that caused me to go back to the standard ASP.NET stack.

I was trying to redirect from an action on one controller to an action on another controller.  RedirectToRoute wasn’t working for me instead of being redirected the current action just kept being reloaded.  This really irritated me because either this is a bug in the framework or I was being tripped up by a misunderstanding of how asp.net mvc works. 

When I went to the official asp.net mvc forum to see if I could find any documentation on this I found several people complaining about things that worked in preview release 3 that don’t work in release 4. This tells me the framework fundamentals are more in flux than I would feel comfortable dealing with at this time.

In trying to dig up documentation on the asp.net mvc framework there was no central repository of information. I really wish they would centralize the existing documentation and update it with each release.

I order an iPhone 3G last week at the AT&T store near work.  There was a url on my receipt I was told I could use to check the status of my order.  The web form at the url has three required fields one of them being zip code.  It took me a little while to figure out that I had to put in the AT&T store’s zip code instead of my own which makes no sense to me at all.

So I have been checking on my order at least once a day since I ordered the phone.  This morning when I checked on my order the QTY Back-Ordered column read 0 instead of one.  I thought maybe they had received a shipment of phones and mine was being processed. However when I checked on my order this afternoon the QTY Back-Ordered read 1 again.  AT&T and Apple have really dropped the ball on this one and I am not pleased at all.