asp.net mvc deployment

Question

Ive managed to get asp.net mvc up and running on an iis6 server, but I keep getting silly messages like 'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' does not contain a definition for 'RenderPartial'

I've got all the required dlls and even installed mvc from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c9ba1fe1-3ba8-439a-9e21-def90a8615a9&displaylang=en

any clues about what Im missing? Cheers

Answer 1

This post might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211493/asp-net-mvc-beta-1-where-is-html-renderpartial

Answer 2

RenderPartial is an extension method and is defined in System.Web.Mvc.

So check out if you have in root Web.config lines adding System.Web.Extensions assembly:

<add assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>

in <configuration> <system.web> <compilation> <assemblies> node.

Answer 3

Thanks all for your suggestions and also more importantly for your contributions which has made this site the great site. I dont know what I would do without this site and you guys. Thanks

this link fixed it, replacing the compilers section of the web config did it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1780097/system-web-mvc-htmlhelper-does-not-contain-a-definition-for-renderpartial-a

Answer 4

You are most probably missing this from your web.config:

<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html"/>