The type or namespace IAppBuilder could not be found(missing using a directive pr an assembly reference)

Question

I am working on an Asp.Net MVC 4 Application in which I am using SignalR 2.0.1 and I Mapped it using Owin Startup class and it worked fine at first.

All of a sudden

Answer 1

It's an ordering issue.

using Microsoft.Owin;
using Owin;

Leads to Microsoft.Owin to be defined first, then Owin is found under already imported Microsoft namespace. If you mouse over Owin of using Owin you should see it was resolved to Microsoft.Owin again and furthermore IDE will gray out using Owin as redundant unused reference.

Do:

using global::Owin;

Which clarifies for the compiler not to look for Owin under already defined namespaces (e.g. Microsoft. namespace).