.NET MVC Routing Issue - asp.net-mvc

Question

For some reason, my route isn't being seen by .NET.
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
"RSSFeed", // Route name
"Blog/RSSFeed", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Blog", action = "RSSFeed", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"About", // Route name
"About/", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "About", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Contact", // Route name
"Contact/", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Contact", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Admin", // Route name
"admin/", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Admin", action = "CreatePost", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Resume", // Route name
"resume/", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Resume", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"ViewArticle", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}/{friendly}", // URL with parameters
new { friendly = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"DownloadResume", // Route name
"DownloadResume/", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Resume", action = "DownloadResume", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
//Any of these
routes.MapRoute(
"cpe", // Route name
"Play/CreatePlayEvent/{groupid}/{username}/{activeplay}/{game}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Play", action = "CreatePlayEvent", groupID = "0", username = "", activeplay = "", game = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"CheckPlayEvent", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{groupID}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Play", action = "CheckPlayEvent", groupID = "0" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"clpe", // Route name
"Play/ClearPlayEvent/{groupid}/{username}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Play", action = "ClearPlayEvent", groupID = "0", username = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
//End broken routes
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Blog", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
myurl.com/Play/CheckPlayEvent/0
Group ID keeps being seen as NULL on the controller side. Anyone? Also, there doesn't seem to be a built-in debugger for routing, or at least I haven't seen one. What does everyone use to debug routes?
Is there a way to say that the Controller name, method name, and parameters make the URL?

Answer 1

I think the following route is getting hit, rather that your intended route:
routes.MapRoute(
"ViewArticle", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}/{friendly}", // URL with parameters
new { friendly = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
Friendly is optional, so {controller}/{action}/{id} style routes will also hit this - which looks really quite like the route you are having trouble with.
Move your play route above this one and try again.