Integrating MVC Futures in Spark view engine without killing intellisense

Question

I want to add MVC futures to my project and make the assembly available in my spark views however it's not accepting it whatsoever.

I can use Microsoft.Web.Mvc fine from my classes (controllers/models etc) but they're just not showing up in .spark files.

I cannot use <use assembly""/> since that kills my intellisense. And if i try to add <use namespace='Microsoft.Web.Mvc" /> its not finding .Web.

I also cant add assemblies in the web.config spark section as that kills intellisense too.

This:

public void RegisterViewEngines(ViewEngineCollection engines)
{
    if (engines == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("engines");
    var settings = new SparkSettings();
    settings.SetAutomaticEncoding(true);
    settings
        .AddNamespace("System")
        .AddNamespace("System.Collections.Generic")
        .AddNamespace("System.Linq")
        .AddNamespace("System.Web.Mvc")
        .AddNamespace("System.Web.Mvc.Html")
        .AddNamespace("Microsoft.Web.Mvc");
    settings
        .AddAssembly("Microsoft.Web.Mvc")
        .AddAssembly("Spark.Web.Mvc")
        .AddAssembly("System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35")
         .AddAssembly("System.Web.Routing, Version=3.5.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35");
     engines.Add(new SparkViewFactory(settings));
}

Throws no errors and doesn't kill my intellisense in spark files but it also doesnt seem to want to import the assembly even still.

The Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll is set to Copy Local to the running bin too.

What am i overlooking any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hum I don't know if it will resolve your problem but here is my web.config with the Spark section :

<spark>
    <compilation debug="true"/>
    <pages automaticEncoding="true" pageBaseType="xx.Web.SparkModelViewPage"/>
</spark>

pageBaseType is to support Fluent HTML from MvcContrib

and in the _Global.spark file I got this :

<use namespace="System"/>
<use namespace="System.Linq"/>
<use namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/>
<use namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html"/>
<use namespace="System.Web.Routing"/>
<use namespace="System.Collections.Generic"/>
<use namespace="xxx.Web"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib.UI"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib.UI.Grid"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib.UI.Pager"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib.UI.Grid.ActionSyntax"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib.FluentHtml"/>
<use namespace="MvcContrib.FluentHtml.Elements"/>
<use namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc"/>
<use namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc.Controls"/>
<use namespace="xVal.Html"/>

I tried to add the namespaces in web.config spark section but it kills intellisense.