Hi 

I am new to Umbraco but enjoying it however I have a really frustrating problem. I am trying to fire code on the application startup event to register Routes and other things. After building the application and browsing Umbraco CMs everything works fine. Howver when I look at my site it is completely blank and no markup is being rendered in the page source. I am using the ApplicationEventHandler Base class to override the started event but nothing is working. After looking at the event viewer I see the following message:

Process information: 

    Process ID: 13160 

    Process name: iisexpress.exe 

    Account name: MACKIEVISTA\danny 

Exception information: 

    Exception type: TargetInvocationException 

    Exception message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceDefaultCtor(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)

   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)

   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)

   at System.Web.Mvc.DefaultControllerFactory.DefaultControllerActivator.Create(RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)

Value cannot be null.

Parameter name: umbracoContext

   at Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoController..ctor(UmbracoContext umbracoContext)

   at Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoController..ctor()

   at Umbraco.Web.Mvc.RenderMvcController..ctor()

   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceDefaultCtor(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)

Request information: 

    Request URL: http://localhost:38324/favicon.ico ;

    Request path: /favicon.ico 

    User host address: ::1 

    User:  

    Is authenticated: False 

    Authentication Type:  

    Thread account name: MACKIEVISTA\danny 

Thread information: 

    Thread ID: 10 

    Thread account name: MACKIEVISTA\danny 

    Is impersonating: False 

    Stack trace:    at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceDefaultCtor(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)

   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)

   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)

   at System.Web.Mvc.DefaultControllerFactory.DefaultControllerActivator.Create(RequestContext requestContext, Type controllerType)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using Umbraco.Web;
using Umbraco.Core;
using System.Web.Optimization;
 
namespace AmaUmbraco.Global
{
    public class AMAGlobal : ApplicationEventHandler
    {
 
        protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {
            base.ApplicationStarted(umbracoApplication, applicationContext);
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
 
            WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
            FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        }
    }
}