MvcBuildViews true with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC 2

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Alper picture Alper · May 4, 2010 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

In VS 2010, changing <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews> in a MVC2 project's .csproj file causes an error if you are using Entity Framework.

Could not load type 'System.Data.Entity.Design.AspNet.EntityDesignerBuildProvider'. C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\web.config 129

I want to build views while I'm debugging, and I also want my project to compile!

Answer

a7drew picture a7drew · May 11, 2010

You can resolve this MVC compile issue by adding the following element to your web.config file:

<add assembly="System.Data.Entity.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />

This will tell the compiler where to find that missing type.

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