mvc no codebehind strongly typed viewdata headers not working

Question

I add that to my header <%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" %> and am able to access ViewData and all its internals as well as all the mvc objects like url and html. As soon as I add "System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<app.Models.tTable>" I have no access to any mvc classes and helper methods. I am confused on why this is. I have done an upgrade from mvc preview 5 to rc1 recently but my transition to rc1 was flawless without any errors or bugs.

Answer 1

After fishing (alot of fishing) around I found the answer, this is because I didn't read the official release notes rather ran through a tutorial from a blog but anywho to get this working you need to replace the <pages> node in the web.config file in your "/Views" directory with

<!--
        Enabling request validation in view pages would cause validation to occur
        after the input has already been processed by the controller. By default
        MVC performs request validation before a controller processes the input.
        To change this behavior apply the ValidateInputAttribute to a
        controller or action.
    -->
    <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>

I added the commenting from a pre built web.config file

Answer 2

There's a trick. There's a web.config under the /Views folder. Wow, I didn't see that.

Thanks for posting