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

I was missing web.config under Areas/MyArea/Views/web.config. Once added it worked fine. This was with MVC 5 and .NET4.5