The view must derive from WebViewPage, or WebViewPage<TModel>

asp.net-mvc-3 razor embedded-resource plugin-architecture
Nasir picture Nasir · Nov 14, 2011 · Viewed 55.3k times · Source

I'm following Justin Slattery's Plugin Architecture tutorial and trying to adapt it for Razor, instead of WebForm Views.

Everything else (controllers, plugin assembly loading, etc) seems to be okay. However, I'm not able to get embedded Razor views to work properly. When I try to browse to the "HelloWorld/Index", I get the following error:

The view at '~/Plugins/MyProjectPlugin.dll/MyProjectPlugin.Views.HelloWorld.Index.cshtml' must derive from WebViewPage or WebViewPage<TModel>.

The exception is thrown by System.Web.Mvc.RazorView.RenderView(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer, Object instance) +262

I can include the complete stack trace, if needed.

Can anyone advise as to what I might be doing wrong?

Answer

Darin Dimitrov picture Darin Dimitrov · Nov 14, 2011

You may checkout the following blog post which is more adapted to Razor.

But to answer your question, since you are now serving your views from a non standard location there is no longer the ~/Views/web.config file that applies and allows you to specify the base type for your razor views. So you might need to add the following on the top of each razor view:

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage
@model ...

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