Tale of two web.config in MVC

When creating a MVC project using Visual Studio you will observe that creation process will add two web.config files to your project. In root of the project folder. In the root of the Views folder in the project folder. Question: The web.config in the root of the project is natural and expected, but why MVC project contains a web.config files in the views folder? Answer: To quote wikipedia: A controller can send commands to the model to update the model's state (e.g., editing a document). It can also send commands to its associated view to change the view's presentation of the model (e.g., by scrolling through a document). In ASP.NET MVC concept of routing is used that helps decoupling URLs mapping with specific files. Due to the routing definitions and route collection definitions of any application enables the application to serve a URL to » Read more