Why do I randomly get a “error to use section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication'” when building an MVC project?

Question

I have seen a few questions on SO about a similar error when deploying a website, but I seem to randomly get this error when building an ASP.NET MVC website in

Answer 1

I answered a similar question recently, and this looks like it might be related.

To summarize, I ran into this in one of our MVC projects, and it was due to having the MvcBuildViews property in the project file set to true. Setting the property to false fixed the problem.

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I also found this answer which outlines an alternative that does not require turning off view building.