Question

I am working on a ASP.NET MVC2 website and now I need to add more projects. My current webproject looks like this :

MyProject
- MyProject
-- [MyProjects project files]
- [Solution files] (plus a webconfig)

I started to takeout just the MyProject and rename it so that the structure looked like this :

MyProject.Website
- [MyPrject.Website project files]

Then I Created a MyPrject folder where I placed both the MyProjectSite and another project called MyProject.Integration, like this :

MyProject
- MyProject.Website
- MyProject.Integration

Then I started Visual Studio 2010 and created a blank solution, this gave me the following file structure :

MyProject
- MyProject.Solution
-- [Solution files] (no web.config)
- MyProject.Website
-- [Website project files]
- MyProject.Integration
-- [Integration project files)

When looking in Visual Studio 2010 I can see that my Solution(MyProject) contains two projects(MyProject.Website and MyPrject.Integration).

Now I hit Rebuild all and first get the following Exception:

Error 1 Could not load type ‘System.Data.Entity.Design.AspNet.EntityDesignerBuildProvider’. C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\web.config 129

If I just rebuild the MyProjectIntegration everything is working fine but uts when building the MyProject.Website that I get this exception.

Its strange that I get a exception in a web.config not placed within my projects?

I googled the problem and found out that I could add a row to my web.config in the MyProject.Website, this is how it looks

<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
  <assemblies>
    <add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <add assembly="System.Data.Entity, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
    <add assembly="System.Data.Entity.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
  </assemblies>
</compilation>

The “System.Data.Entity.Design” row was added

When this was dune I rebuilded again and then I got the following exception :

Error 1 The type or namespace name ‘ModelViewRegisterFilter’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Biss.Views.ViewClasses’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\MyProject.website\e0c6b507\13ca6533\App_Web_3ri01j0f.0.cs 178

What am I doing wrong? I just need to have a main Solution that contains the two projects?

Edit1: Pleas note that all the projects was working just fine before I tried to place them in this solution.

Answer 1

Instead of creating a blank solution, why not try starting off with the mvc solution template and then add your existing projects and files to it.