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Becca
Becca

Reputation: 1580

MVC3, Spark View Engine: The type or namespace name 'Mvc' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.Web'

I'm getting this error when I try to use access an ASP.NET MVC3 application using the Spark View Engine published to my local IIS 7 server. I've looked at this answer and have already followed that advice, but I still get problems. I also tried changing the Copy Local setting to true for the Microsoft.Web.Mvc DLL. I never get this error with the Visual Studio debug server. Republishing sometimes makes the error go away, but it comes back.

Where should I start looking to get rid of this problem?

Thanks!

<!-- At the end of my Web.config: -->
<runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
        <dependentAssembly>
            <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
            <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
        </dependentAssembly>
    </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

edit: For clarity, the IIS server that I'm trying to deploy to is on my development machine.

edit: My _global.spark looks something like this:

<use namespace="System.Collections.Generic"/>
<use namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html"/>
<use namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/>
<use namespace="System" />
<use namespace="System.Linq" />
<use namespace="Namespace.For.Some.Code" />
<use namespace="Namespace.For.Some.More.Code" />
<use namespace="Namespace.For.Yet.Some.More.Code" />
<use namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc" />
<use namespace="Namespace.For.Still.More.Code" />

<!-- Added after suggested answer -->
<use assembly="Microsoft.Web.Mvc"/>

<global type="string" Title="'title of my app'" />
<global type="SomeDomainObject" SomeVariable="Utilities.ApplicationUtilities.GetSomeDomainObject" />

Upvotes: 3

Views: 991

Answers (1)

RobertTheGrey
RobertTheGrey

Reputation: 8685

Have you referenced MVC from your /Shared/_global.spark file?

You can see the details in this answer

Alternatively you can add the namespaces to your SparkSettings when you register the ViewEngine. This is what mine looks like:

var settings = new SparkSettings()
 .SetDebug(true)
 .SetAutomaticEncoding(true)
 .AddAssembly("Web")
 .AddNamespace("Web.Model")
 .AddNamespace("System.Collections.Generic")
 .AddNamespace("System.Linq")
 .AddNamespace("System.Web.Mvc")
 .AddNamespace("System.Web.Mvc.Html");

Hope that helps,
Rob

Upvotes: 1

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