The name 'model' does not exist in current context in MVC3

Question

I added a cshtml page in an project. When I tried to add the following declaration to it, I get an error: \"The name \'model\' does not exist in current context\".

Answer 1

If your views are in a class library assembly, which is useful for reuse of shared views among projects, then just doing what Adam suggests might not be enough. I still had issues even with that.

Try this in your web.config in the root of your project:

And this in the web.config in your views folder:

This worked for me. I now have intellisense and no compile errors on my views in a non-MVC project that I can then reference from multiple MVC websites.