Namespace not found in MVC 3 Razor view

Question

I am adding a PagedList to my view and loosely following this Tutorial. I have installed the PagedList reference using Nuget, set up my controller as follows

public ViewResult Index(int page = 1)
    {
        List<Part> model = this.db.Parts.ToList();
        const int pageSize = 20;
        return View(model.ToPagedList(page, pageSize));
    }

And written my view with the following model at the top

@model PagedList.IPagedList<RIS.Models.Part>

When I run the page I get the following error

Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'PagedList' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Source Error:


Line 27:     
Line 28:     
Line 29:     public class _Page_Areas_Parts_Views_Part_Index_cshtml : System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage<PagedList.IPagedList<RIS.Models.Part>> {

The PagedList dll is being properly loaded in my controller because when I take it out of my view everything works as expected. The CopyLocal property is set to 'True' and I have tried including the namespace in the Views\Web.Config in my specific Area. What else can I do to make the View see the Namespace?

Answer 1

I needed to add the namespace to the Views web.config file.

Details are in this SO post:

I then needed to close/re-open Visual Studio 2010 in order for it to recognize. Compiling the project didn't help (the web.config might only be read once upon project load).

Answer 2

I had this problem as well when using an assembly that wasn't set to "Copy Local", after changing the assembly reference properties it works as expected.