ASP.NET MVC3 Areas and Razor views produce errors? RSS

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  AaronDL

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  ASP.NET MVC3 Areas and Razor views produce errors?

  Aug 22, 2010 07:31 PM|LINK

  The view at '~/Areas/SomeArea/Views/List/Index.cshtml' must derive from ViewPage, ViewPage, ViewUserControl, or ViewUserControl.

  The project structure is pretty much default. There is one area called SomeArea. It has a single controller called List. It does nothing except:

  public ActionResult Index()
  {
      return View("~/Areas/SomeArea/Views/List/Index.cshtml");
  }

  The view looks like:

  @inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage<dynamic>
  @{
      View.Title = "Index";
      LayoutPage = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
  }

   
  I have tried emptying the entire file part by part and nothing seems to help. If I create a controller and view outside the area it works just fine. If I create an aspx view it works fine as well. Is it possible the default razor view engine doesn't support areas at this time?
  The areas are registered too.
  public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
  {
      routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
      routes.MapRoute(
          "Default", // Route name
          "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
          new { controller = "Random", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
      );
  }
  
  protected void Application_Start()
  {
      AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
      RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
      RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
  }
  
  public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
  {
      context.MapRoute(
          "SomeArea_default",
          "SomeArea/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
          new { controller = "List", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
      );
  }
  
  
  

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  imran_ku07

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  Re: ASP.NET MVC3 Areas and Razor views produce errors?

  Aug 23, 2010 07:00 PM|LINK

  I think it should work becuse both WebFormViewEngine and CshtmlViewEngine are inherited from VirtualPathProviderViewEngine which have Same FindView Method.

  According your Error, it shows that only WebFormViewEngine is used.

  Try,

  return View(new CshtmlView("~/Areas/SomeArea/Views/List/Index.cshtml"));

  For WebForm View Try,
  

  return View(new WebFormView("~/Areas/SomeArea/Views/List/Index.aspx"));

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  AaronDL

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  Re: ASP.NET MVC3 Areas and Razor views produce errors?

  Aug 23, 2010 08:06 PM|LINK

  That did the trick thanks a lot!

  
  

  Is there anyway to set Razor to be the default view engine so this problem won't occur if Razor is all I'm using?
  

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  Re: ASP.NET MVC3 Areas and Razor views produce errors?

  Aug 23, 2010 11:37 PM|LINK

  AaronDL

  
  

  Is there anyway to set Razor to be the default view engine so this problem won't occur if Razor is all I'm using?

  Add this in Application_Start
  

  ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
  ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new CshtmlViewEngine());
  ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new WebFormViewEngine());

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