Replacing $routeProvider with the latest and greatest from Angularjs - angularjs

I am just getting started with an angular project. We have a number of simple views and controllers, and have been using the mechanism provided by $routeProvider to map controllers to views. Upon updating to angular v1.2.0 the $routeProvider mechanism appears to be gone and replaced with something better. However, I have not been able to find a coherent code example showing how to make the switch.
What I have looks like this:
theApp.config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
templateUrl: 'views/main.html',
controller: 'MainCtrl'
})
.when('/foo', {
templateUrl: 'views/foo.html',
controller: 'FooCtrl'
})...
What has that changed to?
Thanks

It is still $routeProvider, but they moved it out into a module. You need to add it to the list of dependencies for your app by injecting 'ngRoute'.
You can get the routing module with the others for http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0-rc.2/
here.

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when('/', {controller: 'MyCtrl', templateUrl: '/eshop/myConfig'})
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In my code:
$routeProvider.
when('/', {templateUrl: '../views/home.html?v='+window.buildNumber, controller: 'HomeCtrll'}).
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$httpProvider.defaults.headers.get = {};
}
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