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  Doggy8088

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  How to debug asp.net mvc 4 source code with Intellisense enabled?

  Nov 11, 2012 01:45 PM|Doggy8088|LINK

  I was trying to setup a MVC4 project with ASP.NET MVC 4 source code.  After I change the project references and Views\web.config file, all the View pages are just can't use Intellisense in the Visual Studio 2012.   See below:

  

  But I do can run the ASP.NET MVC website without any problem.

  I made a really simple project to descirbe my question.  Here is the projects I made to debug with ASP.NET MVC 4 source code:
  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1011445/TempDownload/debug_mvc4_with_src.zip

  Here is what I made with my sample project:

  1. Download ASP.NET MVC 4 source code from CodePlex.

  2. Unzip it to a folder

  3. Open Runtime.sln

  4. Add a new ASP.NET MVC 4 project from Visual Studio 2012 ASP.NET MVC 4 Basic Project Template named "MvcApplication1"

  5. I tried to remove the following references and add it back from current solution's projects:

  • System.Web.Mvc
  • System.Web.Razor
  • System.Web.WebPages
  • System.Web.WebPages.Razor
  • System.Web.WebPages.Deployment

  6. Then change the web.config file under Views folder.  Remove all the following text from this file:

  • , Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35
  • , Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35

  7. Then build & run.

  This project can be debug & trace & setup breakpoints without any problem, but all the Views just become unable to use Intellisense.

  Does anyone can help?

  Thanks!

  Will
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  Re: How to debug asp.net mvc 4 source code with Intellisense enabled?

  Nov 12, 2012 05:42 AM|DarrellNorton|LINK

  The Razor configuration sections should still be version 2.0.0.0. Make sure the following are in your web.config:

  <configuration>
  <configSections>
  <sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
  <section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
  <section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" />
  </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>
  
  <... />
  
  </configuration>

  
  
  

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  Re: How to debug asp.net mvc 4 source code with Intellisense enabled?

  Nov 12, 2012 06:38 AM|Doggy8088|LINK

  HI DarrelNorton,  It doesn't works.   After change to your recommandation, the Razor can't run any more.  Please check the following error message:

  Server Error in '/' Application.

  [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' in the context 'Default' at location 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.WebPages.Razor\v4.0_2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll'. Type B originates from 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' in the context 'Default' at location 'G:\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\f55ec8f5\e3d2a456\assembly\dl3\051a9d90\dc0c2fdc_c9c0cd01\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll'.

   

   

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  Re: How to debug asp.net mvc 4 source code with Intellisense enabled?

  Nov 12, 2012 03:33 PM|Doggy8088|LINK

  This problem is confuse me for a long time.  Hope someone could help me, thanks.

  Will
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  Re: How to debug asp.net mvc 4 source code with Intellisense enabled?

  Nov 23, 2012 01:22 PM|imran_ku07|LINK

  Hi Doggy,

  This seems to be an issue/bug with Visual Studio. When you try to use a non-GAC MVC(or WebPages) assembly in Views/web.config then VS cshtml intellisense will think that this cshtml file is a cshtml web page(which is maininly used in WebMatrix and it's inherit from System.Web.WebPages.WebPage) instead of a MVC view which inherit from System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage. A quick way to resolve this issue is to add these lines in every MVC view,

  Update: I was also able to debug your ditto sample solution by following simple steps available at here.

  @inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage<MvcApplication1.Models.User>
  @using System.Web.Mvc
  @using System.Web.Mvc.Ajax
  @using System.Web.Mvc.Html
  @using System.Web.Optimization
  @using System.Web.Routing

  
  

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  Re: How to debug asp.net mvc 4 source code with Intellisense enabled?

  Nov 23, 2012 05:26 PM|arknu|LINK

  I believe I am suffering from this issue, though in an Umbraco site. Umbraco has now added MVC support, but only v3. So I compiled a custom build with MVC4 instead. It works just fine - apart from the intellisense part of things... The frustrating thing is that I have previously managed to get it working - but I can't remeber exactly what I did, it just suddenly decided to start working.