Razor Views not seeing System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper

Question

I am in the process of upgrading to MVC4. I have followed the instructions at http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes#_Toc303253806 but in my Razor views and layou

Answer 1

I had the same issue when updating to MVC 5 and it was solved by updating the web.config inside the Views folder.

The host -> factoryType was set to version:4.0.0.0 hope this helps anyone.