I've been working on an MVC 4 solution, and I've been trying to upgrade it to MVC 5. I've followed the steps outlined here.
I've followed it, and now whenever I run the MVC Application, it gives me this error message:
[A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to
[B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection.
Type A originates from
'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' in the context 'Default' at location
'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.WebPages.Razor\v4.0_2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll'.
Type B originates from 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' in the context 'Default' at location
'C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET
Files\root\665ac028\de53a189\assembly\dl3\c2c0a4b5\56e8099e_40e0ce01\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll'.
Does anyone know how this could have originated? or how it can be solved? I've looked around thus far? I've tried changing the web.config files, with no avail...
In your Web.config
(-s) make sure assemblyBinding
contains the proper version for the assembly System.Web.WebPages.Razor
and System.Web.Mvc
.
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages.Razor" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-5.0.0.0" newVersion="5.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
And make sure that razor sectionGroup
in ConfigSections
reference latest versions as well:
<sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">
<section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false" />
<section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" requirePermission="false" />
</sectionGroup>