MVCBuildViews not working correctly

Question

So I edited my csproj file on an MVC 3 RTM application to set the following property:

<MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews> 

This should cause my views to be complied during build and force a build error if my view is broken. This is the only change I made, however, when I try to build the application, I get the following error:

It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

The project compiles and runs successfully if I change back to false,

The following are the build tasks configured in the csproj file (these were never manually edited, they were added by Visual Studio 2010)

<Target Name="BeforeBuild"> </Target> <Target Name="AfterBuild"> </Target> --> <Target Name="MvcBuildViews" AfterTargets="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(MvcBuildViews)'=='true'">   <AspNetCompiler VirtualPath="temp" PhysicalPath="$(WebProjectOutputDir)" /> </Target> 

Am I missing something here? How do I get MVC 3 / Visual Studio 2010 configured correctly to validate my views at build time?

Answer 1

I had this problem a few days ago and I fixed it by deleting obj/Debug folder. Cleaning the project also works. I have no idea about the cause of the issue, though.

See Joe Cartano's answer for a more permanent solution.