Cutting Teeth on MVC: Could not load type ‘System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<...>’

Hours of debugging and wondering what was going on with certain Views not loading, I traced down this awesome post and had to re-post it for anyone else who might be experiencing this particular pain…

Problem:

Parser Error Message: Could not load type ‘System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<…>’.

You’ve checked your references, the view, the controller… what’s the deal?

Solution:

Missing in your “Views/web.config” “pages” element:

 <pages
          validateRequest="false"
          pageParserFilterType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewTypeParserFilter, System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
          pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage, System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
          userControlBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl, System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
         <controls>
            <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" namespace="System.Web.Mvc" tagPrefix="mvc" />
         </controls>
      </pages>

Related Solution:

If you created the project using an RC or Beta, you may need to recreate it using the final version 1.0 as a few things changed and may contribute to this or other issues. I had to do this since I started the project before I installed 1.0

Links:

Alkampfer
Ben Hall

Update :-\
After referencing the MVC Futures DLL, this solution stopped working for me, I have now had to resort to copying the “Views” web.config into every subfolder under Views. Not sure if it’s related. How Annoying!

Good luck.

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