http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/06/12/zombie-operating-systems-and-aspnet-mvc/

Good lord, people put up with this crap?

If you’re lazy and hate reading, you can go jump have this takeaway snippet:

And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include:

• /com\d(\..*)?
• /lpt\d(\..*)?
• /con(\..*)?
• /aux(\..*)?
• /prn(\..*)?
• /nul(\..*)?

in any of your routes

On the upside, I guess this means you can get the Windows equivalent of running a bare cat on linux with TYPE CON…

Tags: asp, backwards compatibility, microsoft

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