Razor references not resolved in MVC 5 views Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise

Question

My current development environment:

• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Update 2
• Resharper Ultimate 2016.1.2

Project Configuration:

• C# .Net 4.5
• MVC 5

I have looked through several threads, blogs for example ViewBag does not exist in the current context - Visual studio 2015

But my *.cshtml page shows few errors relevant to Razor

I have

• Cleaned the componentModelCache @ C:\Users\your.name.here\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
• updated the Views\web.config System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.2.0
• and every possible config update available through the forums & blogs

Still no result. But when I create a brand new project this error does not appear. Any clue?

FYI, Error or not the solution builds and runs without any drama.

Answer 1

Check your ~/Views/web.config for the following settings.

<configuration>
  <system.web.webPages.razor>
    <pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
      ...
    </pages>
  </system.web.webPages.razor>
</configuration>

This is required for Visual Studio to recognize the types in your razor views.

Also ,

a. Unload and reload the project from the solution

b. Clean the solution

c. Exit Visual Studio, delete .user file in the project folder.

d. Open the solution again and build