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Question

Microsoft recently introduced new ASP.NET Identity - replacement for old (Simple)Membership. Unfortunately, I can\'t use this new membership system in my old project because

Answer 1

I had the exact same error, but as it turned out I had another configuration problem in my web.config. My web.config was missing the attribute defaultLanguage="c#" in the compilation element under system.web.

In this case it will default to VB. So unless you have your Startup class written in VB you should change the default language to C#.

Not correct:

This is correct (unless you use VB):