MVC 4 Scripts does not exist

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I have just created an ASP NET MVC 4 project and used Visual Studio 2012 RC to create a Controller and Razor Views for Index and Create Actions   When I came to run the application  and browsed to the Create view  the following error was shown      Compiler Error Message  CS0103  The name  Scripts  does not exist in   the current context   The problem is the following code which was added automatically to the bottom of the View    section Scripts        Scripts Render    bundles jqueryval       Why does Scripts not exist   I looked at the base Web Page class in Assembly System Web Mvc dll  v4 0 0 0  I can see the following helper properties available    Ajax Html Url   But nothing named Scripts   Any ideas   EDIT   My Web config file looks like this  untouched from the one that Visual Studio created       lt system web webPages razor gt       lt host factoryType  System Web Mvc MvcWebRazorHostFactory  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt       lt pages pageBaseType  System Web Mvc WebViewPage  gt         lt namespaces gt           lt add namespace  System Web Mvc    gt           lt add namespace  System Web Mvc Ajax    gt           lt add namespace  System Web Mvc Html    gt           lt add namespace  System Web Routing    gt         lt  namespaces gt       lt  pages gt     lt  system web webPages razor gt    EDIT  2   People are blogging about using the  Scripts helper    SCOTT HANSELMAN Blog Codebetter com   Yet having just installed Visual Studio 2012 RC onto a fresh Windows 8 install I am still unable to use  Scripts even though Visual Studio adds it to the generated View   Solutions are presented below   I am not sure how to close this  because in the end an update seemed to resolve the issue  I double checked I had performed a clean install  using a new project  But the same failing project I had made works fine now after various updates and no manual obvious intervention  Thanks for all of the thoughts but there was definitely an issue at the time

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For me this solved the problem  in NuGet package manager console write following   update-package microsoft aspnet mvc -reinstall

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remove view page    add namespace webconfig  in view directory    create view an try    good luck

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The key here is to add     lt add namespace  System Web Optimization    gt     to BOTH web config files  My scenario was that I had System Web Optimization reference in both project and the main root web config but  Scripts still didn t work properly  You need to add the namespace reference to the Views web config file to make it work   UPDATE   Since the release of MVC 4 System Web Optimization is now obsolete  If you re starting with a blank solution you will need to install the following nuget package   Install-Package Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization   You will still need to reference System Web Optimization in your web config files  For more information see this topic   How to add reference to System Web Optimization for MVC-3-converted-to-4 app  As many pointed out  restart of VS could be required after the above steps to make this work

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I had the same problem and I used WinMerge to help me track this down  But as I researched it more  I found that Rick has the perfect blog post for it   Summary    Add  lt add namespace  System Web Optimization   gt  to both web config files Run Install-Package -IncludePrerelease Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization Update Bundling code Update Layout file The last step is to update 10 other libraries  I didn t and it worked fine  So looks like you can procrastinate this one  unless I already updated 1 or more of them

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Just write   section Scripts       lt script src   System Web Optimization BundleTable Bundles ResolveBundleUrl    bundles jqueryval    gt  lt  script gt

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Try this    section Scripts        Scripts Render    bundles jqueryval        lt - without ampersand at the begin

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I had the same issue   The System Web Optimization version I was using was outdated for MVC4 RC   I updated my packages using the package manager in VS 2010   In this MSDN blog  Mr  Andy talks about how to update your MVC 4 Beta project to MVC 4 RC   Updating my packages got the Scripts  particularly the web optimization one  to resolve for me   To install the latest System Web Optimization package  use Package Manager Console  Tools -  Library Package Manager -  Package Manager Console  and run the below command   Install-Package -IncludePrerelease Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization   Use the System Web Optimization file included in the package in your references   To update other packages  Tools menu -  Library Package Manager -  Manage NuGet Packages for Solution

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One more for the pot - spent ages trying to work out the same problem - even though it was defined in the web config for root and the root of Views   Turns out I d mistakenly added it to the  lt system web gt  lt pages gt  lt namespaces gt   and not  lt system web   webPages razor   gt  lt pages gt  lt namespaces gt  element     Really easy to miss that

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Import System Web Optimization on top of your razor view as follows    using System Web Optimization

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If you added   to your web config and it still shows message  then you need to close your project and reopen it  now it will exist and  Styles Render     and  Scripts Render   will work fine

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There was one small step missing from the above  which I found on another post   After adding    lt add namespace  System Web Optimization    gt    to your   Views web config namespaces  close and re-open Visual Studio   This is what I had to do to get this working

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When I enter on a page that haves this code    section Scripts        Scripts Render    bundles jqueryval       This error occurs  Error  An error occurred while processing your request   And this exception are recorded on my logs   System Web HttpException  0x80004005   The controller for path   bundles jqueryval  was not found or does not implement IController     em System Web Mvc DefaultControllerFactory GetControllerInstance RequestContext requestContext  Type controllerType        I have tried all tips on this page and none of them solved for me  So I have looked on my Packages folder and noticed that I have two versions for System Web Optmization dll    Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization 1 1 0  v1 1 30515 0 - 68 7KB  Microsoft Web Optimization 1 0 0-beta  v1 0 0 0 - 304KB    My project was referencing to the older beta version  I only changed the reference to the newer version  69KB  and eveything worked fine   I think it might help someone

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I had a very similar error when upgrading a project from MVC3 to MVC4      Compiler Error Message  CS0103  The name  blah  does not exist in the   current context   In my case  I had outdated version numbers in several of my Web Configs    I needed to update the System Web Mvc version number from  3 0 0 0  to  4 0 0 0  in every Web Config in my project  I needed to update all of my System Web WebPages  System Web Helpers  and System Web Razor version numbers from  1 0 0 0  to  2 0 0 0  in every Web Config in my project    Ex    lt configSections gt     lt sectionGroup name  system web webPages razor  type  System Web WebPages Razor Configuration RazorWebSectionGroup  System Web WebPages Razor  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35  gt       lt section name  host  type  System Web WebPages Razor Configuration HostSection  System Web WebPages Razor  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35  requirePermission  false    gt       lt section name  pages  type  System Web WebPages Razor Configuration RazorPagesSection  System Web WebPages Razor  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35  requirePermission  false    gt     lt  sectionGroup gt   lt  configSections gt         lt compilation debug  true  targetFramework  4 0  gt     lt assemblies gt       lt add assembly  System Web Helpers  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt       lt add assembly  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt       lt add assembly  System Web WebPages  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt     lt  assemblies gt   lt  compilation gt    Be sure to review the Web Configs in each of your Views directories   You can read more about Upgrading an ASP NET MVC 3 Project to ASP NET MVC 4

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Create a new MVC 4 RC internet application and run it  Navigate to Login which uses the same code    section Scripts        Scripts Render    bundles jqueryval       What allows Login cshtml to work is the the Views Web config file  not the app root version  contains    lt namespaces gt        lt add namespace  System Web Optimization   gt      lt  namespaces gt    Why is your Create view not working and Login is

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Styles and  Scripts are 2 new helpers provided by System Web Optimization library  As the name suggests  they bundle and minify CSS and JavaScript files or resources respectively   Try including the namespace System Web Optimization either by  using directive or through web config  http   ofps oreilly com titles 9781449320317 ch ClientOptimization html BundlingAndMinification  UPDATE  Microsoft has moved the bundling minification to a separate package called Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization  You can download the assembly from nuget   This post will be useful to you

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I ran into this problem  however while running the command   Install-Package -IncludePrerelease Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization    I received the cryptic message  gotta love a great pun before the first cup of coffee       Install-Package   The specified cryptographic algorithm is not   supported on this platform    I am running this on Windows XP SP3  not by choice  and what I found was that I had to follow the instructions posted by the user artsnob on the ASP NET Forum   Please uninstall the Nuget and try re-installing it  If you are unable to do this  login as an Administrator  Go to Tools   Extension Manager    Select  Nuget Package Manager     UnInstall Install it again  by searching  Nuget     Install  If it did not work  please try installing  1 7 x version as I mentioned in the previous post  It doesn t mean  you have to use the previous version  if it works fine  we can report this bug  and get the patches for the latest version     Once I ran this I could then run the command line to update the Web Optimization   Hope this saves someone some digging

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just remove  hide the code from create  amp  Edit razor view of your controller      section Scripts          Scripts Render    bundles jqueryval

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I had this issue after I added an Area to a project that didn t have any  To get rid of it just copied the web config withing root Views folder to the Views folder of the area and it started working

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When i started using MVC4 recently i faced the above issue while creating a project with the empty templates  Steps to fix the issue    Goto TOOLS --  Library Package Manager --  Packager Manager Console Paste the below command and press enter Install-Package Microsoft AspNet Web Optimization Note  wait for successful installation   Goto Web Config file in root level and add below namespace in pages namespace section  add  lt namespace  System Web Optimization    gt  Goto Web Config in Views folder and follow the step 2  Build the solution and run    The Package mentioned in step 1 will add few system libraries into the solution references like System Web Optimization is not a default reference for empty templates in MVC4   I hope this helps  Thank you

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I upgraded from Beta to RC and faced  Scripts  does not exist issue  Surfed all over the web and the final solution is what N40JPJ said plus another workaroudn   Copy the following in View Web config        lt namespaces gt       lt add namespace  System Web Mvc    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Mvc Ajax    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Mvc Html    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Routing    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Optimization   gt       lt add namespace  System Web Helpers   gt     lt  namespaces gt    and the following inside View Shared Layout cshtml   if  IsSectionDefined  scripts               RenderSection  scripts   required  false      Hope it helps

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I solve this problem in MvcMusicStore by add this part of code in  Layout cshtml   if  IsSectionDefined  scripts               RenderSection  scripts   required  false      and remove this code from Edit cshtml    section Scripts        Scripts Render    bundles jqueryval       Run the program inshallah will work with you

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I am using areas  and have just come up against this issue  I just copied the namespaces from the root web config to the areas web  config and it now works         lt add namespace  System Web Helpers    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Mvc    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Mvc Ajax    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Mvc Html    gt       lt add namespace  System Web Optimization    gt               lt add namespace  System Web Routing    gt       lt add namespace  System Web WebPages    gt

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That has an obvious solution  I had the same problem later  Not related to Assembly References or      It ll occur In hierarchy calling of MVC Partial views  when you have complicated page structures  So calling rendering each part separately on each page  maybe a master page or partial  will cause to not see required parts of page like the bellow code     RenderSection  Scripts   required  false    That simply forces page to find and render related section and in case of failure shows you an error message like you   So I suggest you to trace your pages  like program trace  from master to all of its partials to Detect Dependencies  Maybe it be a terrible work  but no other choices available here   Not that according to my experience  some conditional situations in programming causes not to show you the right error causes the problem

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Apparently you have created an  Empty  project type without  Scripts  folder  My advice -create a  Basic  project type with full  Scripts  folder   With respect to all developers

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