The name model does not exist in current context in MVC3

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I added a cshtml page in an project  When I tried to add the following declaration to it  I get an error   The name  model  does not exist in current context     model xyz abc SomeClass   I checked the references  all of them are in place  I added a web config in view folder  but that didn t fix it   Is there anything i am missing

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There is also another reason  In my case  I had copy an index cshtml file to web root folder  outside the Views folder  as a backup from remote server    So  I kept changing my  views web config  kept changing my  views home index cshtml and error kept happening    until found out the  index cshtml outside the views folder  deleted it and sure  it all went back to normal

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Check your config file on views directory  in the  add the key for MVC 4 5

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It is a horrible mistake but   Be sure you have Web config files in your View at Remote  Maybe you skipped to upload it by your Ftp programme s filters

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Had similar problems using VS2012 and VS2013   Adding the following line to  lt appSettings gt  in the main web config worked    lt add key  webpages Version  value  3 0 0 0    gt    If the line was already there but said 2 0 0 0  changing it to 3 0 0 0 worked

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I ve got the same issue after updating packages  I did the whole stuff You ve written above in this topic  but the red underlying of the model keyword has not disappeared  Later  found solution  just deleted  package  folder from my project s dir and rebuilded  in the meantime allowed NuGet to restore missing packages  Refreshed  and it s done

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While you declare the model at the top of the view using code like this    model MyModel   you need to capitalise your references to it below  for example    Html Encode Model MyDisplayValue    I believe a missing web config in the Views folder would be the major cause of this  but if that is fixed and the problem still persists  check that you are using Model  not model to refer to it in the source

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If your views are in a class library assembly  which is useful for reuse of shared views among projects  then just doing what Adam suggests might not be enough  I still had issues even with that   Try this in your web config in the root of your project    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt configuration gt     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 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 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 Routing    gt           lt add namespace  System Web WebPages    gt         lt  namespaces gt       lt  pages gt     lt  system web webPages razor gt     lt appSettings gt       lt add key  webpages Version  value  2 0 0 0    gt       lt add key  webpages Enabled  value  false    gt       lt add key  PreserveLoginUrl  value  true    gt       lt add key  ClientValidationEnabled  value  true    gt       lt add key  UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled  value  true    gt     lt  appSettings gt     lt system web gt       lt compilation debug  true  targetFramework  4 0  gt         lt assemblies gt           lt add assembly  System Web Abstractions  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt           lt add assembly  System Web Helpers  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt           lt add assembly  System Web Routing  Version 4 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 add assembly  System Data Linq  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken B77A5C561934E089   gt         lt  assemblies gt       lt  compilation gt       lt pages gt         lt namespaces gt           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 Routing    gt           lt add namespace  System Web WebPages    gt         lt  namespaces gt       lt  pages gt     lt  system web gt     lt system webServer gt       lt validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration  false    gt       lt modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests  true    gt       lt handlers gt         lt remove name  ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4 0 32bit    gt         lt remove name  ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4 0 64bit    gt         lt remove name  ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4 0    gt         lt add name  ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4 0 32bit  path      verb  GET HEAD POST DEBUG PUT DELETE PATCH OPTIONS  modules  IsapiModule  scriptProcessor   windir  Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 aspnet isapi dll  preCondition  classicMode runtimeVersionv4 0 bitness32  responseBufferLimit  0    gt         lt add name  ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4 0 64bit  path      verb  GET HEAD POST DEBUG PUT DELETE PATCH OPTIONS  modules  IsapiModule  scriptProcessor   windir  Microsoft NET Framework64 v4 0 30319 aspnet isapi dll  preCondition  classicMode runtimeVersionv4 0 bitness64  responseBufferLimit  0    gt         lt add name  ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4 0  path      verb  GET HEAD POST DEBUG PUT DELETE PATCH OPTIONS  type  System Web Handlers TransferRequestHandler  preCondition  integratedMode runtimeVersionv4 0    gt       lt  handlers gt     lt  system webServer gt   lt  configuration gt    And this in the web config in your views folder    lt  xml version  1 0   gt    lt configuration gt     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 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      lt appSettings gt       lt add key  webpages Enabled  value  false    gt     lt  appSettings gt      lt system web gt       lt httpHandlers gt         lt add path     verb     type  System Web HttpNotFoundHandler   gt       lt  httpHandlers gt       lt pages         validateRequest  false          pageParserFilterType  System Web Mvc ViewTypeParserFilter  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35          pageBaseType  System Web Mvc ViewPage  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35          userControlBaseType  System Web Mvc ViewUserControl  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35  gt         lt controls gt           lt add assembly  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35  namespace  System Web Mvc  tagPrefix  mvc    gt         lt  controls gt       lt  pages gt     lt  system web gt      lt system webServer gt       lt validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration  false    gt        lt handlers gt         lt remove name  BlockViewHandler   gt         lt add name  BlockViewHandler  path     verb     preCondition  integratedMode  type  System Web HttpNotFoundHandler    gt       lt  handlers gt     lt  system webServer gt   lt  configuration gt    This worked for me  I now have intellisense and no compile errors on my views in a non-MVC project that I can then reference from multiple MVC websites

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I ran into this problem as well   My circumstances were a little different    One of my view folders was accidentally moved to my project s root directory   This lead to the route project root SignUp ViewName matching before project root Views SignUp ViewName   This caused the  model error  After moving the views back into the appropriate location  the directory was somehow recreated in the project root   This time  empty    SignUp ViewName worked  but  SignUp  threw a 403 - Forbidden  Access is denied  error   The entire folder must be removed from the project root    I hope this helps someone   I spent hours believing the problem was caused by our recent upgrade from MVC 3 to MVC 4   Just a note   Upgrade problems should only occur between MVC 2 and MVC 3   If you see this problem on later versions  it s probably not due to the upgrade

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I was facing the same issue and then I find a solution  The solution is         Close Visual Studio    Delete the SUO file   Restart Visual Studio      The  suo file is a hidden file in the same folder where the  svn solution file exists  Hope  it ll work

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Update  If you are using a newer version of MVC  the same process applies  just be sure to use the correct version number in the web config s  lt host gt  line   Well  I found myself experiencing the same thing you did  and after a bit further research  I found out what the problem is   You need to include the default MVC3 web config for the Views folder   MVC3 has two  one in the root for your application  and one for the views folder   This has a section for included namespaces   Be sure that yours looks something like this      lt system web webPages razor gt       lt host factoryType  System Web Mvc MvcWebRazorHostFactory  System Web Mvc  Version 3 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    I suggest that you create a new MVC3 project  then just copy the web config created for you into your views folder   Important Once you ve done that  you need to close the file and reopen it   Voila   Intellisense

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Closing Visual Studio and re-opening worked for me  Must be a weird bug

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I ran into this problem when I inadvertently had a copy of the view file  About cshtml  for the route  about in the root directory   Not the views folder   Once I moved the file out of the root  the problem went away

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It took me ages to solve this issue  but finally I hope I have solved it on MVC  that is similar   I have reinstall ASP NET 4 5  http   www asp net downloads   I have followed the upgrading tutorial on http   www asp net whitepapers mvc4-release-notes  BUT this mentioned paragraph is wrong for me  System Web Mvc  Version 4 0 0 0 System Web WebPages  Version 2 0 0 0 System Web Helpers  Version 2 0 0 0 System Web WebPages Razor  Version 2 0 0 0   Because I have Razor in System Web Razor  so I changed the razor namespace to System Web Razor   Add this to your web config    lt appSettings gt     lt add key  webpages Version  value  2 0 0 0    gt   lt  appSettings gt    I have add the assembly reference to all these assemblies above  Locate the ProjectTypeGuids element and replace  E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401  with  E3E379DF-F4C6-4180-9B81-6769533ABE47    That is all

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I ran into this same problem  but in my case  the only thing that had changed is that I had uninstalled Visual Studio 2012 and installed Visual Studio 2013  I opened up our solution  but I kept getting the same The name  model  does not exist in current context error in every Razor view   My coworker suggested checking for updates for VS2013  After I installed the VS2013 Update 1  I stopped getting this error

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I ran into this same issue when I created a new area to organize my pages   My structure looked like   WebProject  -    Areas     -    NewArea         -    Controllers         -    Views -    Controllers -    Views     - Web config - Web config   The views created in the Views folder under the WebProject worked fine  but the views created under the NewArea threw the following error      The name  model  does not exist in the current context    To fix this I copied the web config in the Views folder under the WebProject to the Views folder in the NewArea   See below   WebProject  -    Areas     -    NewArea         -    Controllers         -    Views             -   Web config   -    Controllers -    Views     - Web config - Web config   I ran into this because I manually created this new area using Add -  New Folder to add the folders   I should have right-clicked the project and selected Add -  Area   Then Visual Studio would have taken care of setting the area up correctly

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Check your web config file should be exist in published files

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Update  5 5 2015  For your MVC 5 project you need to set the Version to 5 0 0 0 in your  views web config   lt system web webPages razor gt        lt host factoryType  System Web Mvc MvcWebRazorHostFactory  System Web Mvc  Version 5 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt   lt  system web webPages razor gt

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Reinstalling the nuget solved it for me  PM  Install-Package Microsoft AspNet Razor -Version 3 2 3

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For me this was the issue  This whole block was missing from the  section      lt assemblies gt       lt add assembly  System Web Abstractions  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt       lt add assembly  System Web Helpers  Version 2 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31BF3856AD364E35    gt       lt add assembly  System Web Routing  Version 4 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 add assembly  System Data Linq  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken B77A5C561934E089   gt     lt  assemblies gt

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I was missing web config under Areas MyArea Views web config  Once added it worked fine  This was with MVC 5 and  NET4 5

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