ASP.NET 3.5 Web Site stopped importing System namespace by default

Question

I have a VB Web Site project that has recently (and mysteriously) stopped importing the "System" namespace by default.

I'm having to either place an Imports System line at the top of each code behind, or preface everything with System, which is fairly annoying, not to mention redundant. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the System namespace back to being imported by default.

I've already checked to see that WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config contains the <add namespace="System"/> line--it does. That was my best lead.

I have references to several namespaces within the System namespace in the <assemblies> node (e.g. System.Design, System.Web.Extensions of my website's web.config. There is no <namespaces> node. This has not been changed recently.

I'm tearing my hair out. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

This seems to have fixed itself as mysteriously as it broke in the first place. I'm not sure what I did, but it's working now. So it goes.