CruiseControl failing view compilation with Asp.net MVC 2 RTM

Question

Tehnologies: - CruiseControlNet - Asp.net MVC 2 RTM - enabled view compilation

The problem is UrlParameter.Optional setting. I can't seem to make it work when I use this setting inside a view.

When I compile inside Visual Studio, everything works fine, but when CCNet uses MSBuild to compile it it fails with following error:

errorCS0103: The name 'UrlParameter' does not exist in the current context

pointing to the line inside my view where this parameter is set on:

Html.RenderAction(...)

that sets certain route parameter(s) to optional.

I tried adding <%@ Assembly name="System.Web.Mvc" %> at the top of my view, but it didn't work either. It works of course when I disable view compilation, but that's not really an option. And I also don't want to set my optional parameters to string.Empty.

Anyone has any hint on this?

Answer 1

Check if your web.config has in the <compilation> section the following entry:

<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />

Answer 2

Solution/Workaround

I checked CCNet configuration of my project and I added the following line in the <msbuild> element:

<buildArgs>/noconsolelogger /p:Configuration=Release</buildArgs>

After that I also changed my csproj file to set these:

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    ...
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    ...
    <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews>
</PropertyGroup>

This way my views are only being compiled in development, where we compile as Debug, but not by MSBuild on CCnet where it now compiles as Release.

Answer 3

We had the same issue (actually, that is how I came to find your question/workaround). It turns out our build server had an older version of MVC 2. You need the RC.

HTH.