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I am trying to create my first View Component in my MVC project but have come to a halt. When I try to invoke my View Component from the razor view page I get an error that states: "The name 'await' does not exist in the current context".

Code I use to call the View Component:

@await Component.InvokeAsync("Example")

View Component class:

namespace MyWebApp.ViewComponents
{
    public class ExampleViewComponent : ViewComponent
    {
        public IViewComponentResult Invoke()
        {
            var user = Account.GetCurrent();

            return View(user);
        }
    }
}

View Component razor view file location: Views/Shared/Components/Example/Default.cshtml

View Component class file location: ViewComponents/ExampleViewComponent.cs

I have mostly been following this tutorial: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/view-components?view=aspnetcore-2.1

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  • Where are you calling the View component ? Is it inside a razor view file ? Commented Sep 17, 2018 at 19:31
  • yes, inside Views/Home/Index.cshtml Commented Sep 17, 2018 at 19:38
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    Which MVC version you're using? @await Component.InvokeAsync("Example") works only for Core MVC, in previous versions you need child actions (marked as ChildActionOnlyAttribute). Commented Sep 18, 2018 at 4:41
  • Turns out it's a asp.net application and not asp.net core. Thanks for the heads up. created a child action method now and works fine :) Commented Sep 18, 2018 at 14:43
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