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Error: The name 'Url' does not exist in the current context in asp.net mvc3

I added a MVC 3 View Page of type Razor to the root of the existing ASP.NET MVC 3 project. ViewName: TestView.cshtml I opened
the above file and tried to add the following line of code in the view:

<head>
<link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/Styles/Themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css")"
rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<title></title>
</head>

For the line above I am getting an error: The name 'Url' does not exist in the current context. But when I am trying the same in a view
within the Home or Account folder it is working fine for me. Can any one help me to know what exactly I am missing?

asp.net-mvc-3

asked Dec 1 '14 at 13:27


santosh kumar patro
906 2 16 29

1 Answer

This is because you have created the view page in the root of the MVC project rather than in
the Views folder.

In the Views folder there is a web.config file which has the following section:

<system.web.webPages.razor>
<pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
...

The namespaces specified here are used to compile the views which is why you get the 'Url
does not exist' error message.

You could try to copy the contents of the web.config to the 'web.config' root but I'm not sure
this is a good idea. And after doing so you may get a warning that there is no build provider
registered but according to this link this will work perfectly fine.

I believe you may then have to register a new custom RazorViewEngine to specify the new
paths to search for view as the default view engine searches for views in the Views` folder.

I'm not sure if you may need to make any other changes but unless you need to have Views in
the root folder, I would recommend you move your view to the Views folder to hopefully allow
you to get it working.

edited Dec 3 '14 at 9:40 answered Dec 2 '14 at 22:04


Dangerous
2,286 2 15 32

Thanks for the detailed answer :) – santosh kumar patro Dec 4 '14 at 13:25

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