Question

I am using Microsoft MVC and C#. I have a usercontrol (example.ascx) created and at the top I’m inheriting System.Web.MVC.ViewUserControl<PostTransferViewModel>

Now, while my model name is appended to ViewUserControl, I get “The name ‘Model’ does not exist in the current context” and “The name ‘Html’ does not exist in the current context. If I removed the <PostTransferViewModel> from the end of ViewUserControl then everything works fine, but I need <PostTransferViewModel>.

    <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<PostTransferViewModel>" %>

<div class="postTransferTank">
    <h2>
        Approved Post Transfers</h2>
    <% if (Model.ApprovedPostTransfers.Count() == 0)
       { %>
    <span class="emptyList">There are currently no approved Post Transfers for this tank.</span><br />
    <% } %>
    <% else
        { %>
    <%=Html.DisplayFor(x => x.ApprovedPostTransfers,"PostTransferList") %>
    <% } %>
    <br />
    <%=Html.ActionLink<PostTransferController>(x => x.NewPostTransfer(), "Enter Post Transfer", new { @class = "create-link" })%>
    <br />
    <% if (Model.DraftPostTransfers.Count() != 0)
       { %>
    <h2>
        Draft Post Transfers</h2>
    <%=Html.DisplayFor(x => x.DraftPostTransfers, "PostTransferList") %>
    <% } %>
</div>

Answer 1

This forum post has a potential solution to your problem:

Sometimes Intellisense doesn’t show up
in aspx/ascx/master files if there is
a compilation error in the
application. If you try running the
site and you get a compilation error
from ASP.NET, try fixing it and then
see if it works.

If the app was previously using
ASP.NET MVC Beta and you later changed
it to use the fully released version
then it’s also quite likely that
there’s a configuration problem. Try
comparing the two web.config files in
the project (one in the root and one
in the Views folder) and see if there
are any differences between them.