Visual studio showing syntax errors in razor statements but works

Question

I've a project in MVC 3. It works perfectly and each time I build it, it succeeds. However, Visual Studio insist in showing compile errors in views in each razor syntax. For example:

The name 'model' does not exist in the current context D:\ ... Detail.cshtml

That line is simple:

@model Namespace.DetailViewModel

I've already tried:

Cleaning solution
Cleaning solution and deleting bin and obj folders.
Closing VS and reopening it (even with a reboot in the middle).

Note: I'm using Visual Studio 2012.

Have you tried deleting the User Profile file?

rae1
– rae1

2013-01-16 14:03:20 +00:00
Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 14:03 — rae1
– rae1, Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 14:03
No, I didn't think in that, but I finally found it.

Diego
– Diego

2013-01-16 14:08:05 +00:00
Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 14:08 — Diego
– Diego, Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 14:08

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:17:30Z

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I've solved it!

The project was created when the computer didn't have MVC 4 installed yet. After installing it, for some reason, it kept working (despite this).

So what I did was make the changes that should be made in MVC 3 project after installing MVC 4: see here

After that, it compiled and the errors disappeared, however there was an error with the versions of some libraries (System.Web.WebPages, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, and some others). That turned out to be because they had Copy Local set to True. After changing that everything started working great.

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KyleMit · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 13:05:57Z

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Open your web.config file located inside of Views folder and add this section if it's missing:

<system.web.webPages.razor>
  <host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
  <pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
    <namespaces>
      <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
      <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
      <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
      <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
    </namespaces>
  </pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>

edited Mar 31, 2017 at 13:05

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answered Jan 16, 2013 at 13:49

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rae1 Over a year ago

How does this fixes the problem?

Miloš Ostojić Over a year ago

It includes references used by @model in Views. If you start with a new empty ASP.NET MVC project, Visual Studio doesn't automatically include web.config file in Views folder. I thought that it might be similar problem.

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