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Asked: 2026-05-30T18:45:43+00:00

I am getting this error when I try to launch my website using WebMatrix.

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I am getting this error when I try to launch my website using WebMatrix. I have a .cs file which makes a call var db = Database.Open("dbase");.

I have a database in my project called “dbase”. I have no web.config file and no imports for using WebMatrix packages since I am launching the site using WebMatrix, so I don’t believe I should need them. Do I need to wrap the code in Razor tags, like @{var db = Database.Open("dbase"); } ? This causes an error for me too.

What could be causing this? Does anyone have any solutions for this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need a reference to the WebMatrix.Data.dll assembly (which you probably have) and you also need a using directive for the WebMatrix.Data namespace:

    using WebMatrix.Data;

    That will import the Database class so you can use it without fully-qualifying the name.

    It’s not clear why you think you wouldn’t need any “imports” (by which I assume you mean using directives like the one above) but if this is in a plain C# file, then you certainly do need them (or you need to fully-qualify type names, which is ugly).

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