Reputation: 13506

ASP.Net MVC "Could Not Load Type" when executing

I have a very simple ASP.Net MVC Application that I have produced from an online tutorial. I've followed it exactly, step by step and have tried multiple times but keep getting the same error when I execute the code.

The program just displays an index page which lists a series of data from an sql server database using linq to sql.

This is the error:

Could not load type 'MvcApplication1.Views.Home.Index'.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

Upvotes: 10

Answers (5)

Zhandos Kurbanaliyev

Reputation: 1

The most possible reason is: you created another class / namespace or copied the web app to another solution

so there's no more class MvcApplication1 It has another name like FooApp2

Check the C# code behind the web page and replace MvcApplication1 with a proper name.

Upvotes: 0

Kalid

Reputation: 22710

I had a similar "Could Not Load Type" problem with ASP.NET MVC in my Global.asax. The fix was to ensure the case of the inherits property was the same as the class it was referencing -- I didn't realize it was case sensitive!

Upvotes: 1

Jon Davis

Reputation: 6773

Possible answer here:

http://www.jondavis.net/techblog/post/2009/04/29/Set-Up-IIS-For-An-MVC-App-When-All-Else-Fails-Check-View-Config.aspx

Basically, add the Views directory's web.config to your target Views directory. Although, it doesn't sound like you're using a strongly typed view, or aren't deploying your code.

Also, I have seen this problem also appear if the compile settings are removed from web.config. In an ASP.NET MVC project created in Visual Studio 2008, those settings are included in web.config, and they should remain or else this error will occur.

Upvotes: 13