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Asked: 2026-06-12T14:13:23+00:00

I can’t get Visual Studio 2012 to recognize the ‘sc’ tagPrefix. My web.config contains

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I can’t get Visual Studio 2012 to recognize the ‘sc’ tagPrefix.
My web.config contains the usual line:

<add tagPrefix="sc" namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls"
     assembly="Sitecore.Kernel"/>

But I keep getting the Unrecognized tag prefix or device filter 'sc' message when I try to add a <sc /> tag to my page or user control.

If I open the same solution in Visual Studio 2010, it works fine.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I finally found it.
    The Web.Config that is provided by Sitecore contains the following section:

    <pages validateRequest="false">
  <controls>
    <add tagPrefix="sc" namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="Sitecore.Kernel" />
    <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <add tagPrefix="sc" namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="Sitecore.Analytics" />
  </controls>
</pages>

    For VS2012, you need to remove the asp tagprefixes, so the section ends up being:

    <pages validateRequest="false">
  <controls>
    <add tagPrefix="sc" namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="Sitecore.Kernel" />
    <add tagPrefix="sc" namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="Sitecore.Analytics" />
  </controls>
</pages>

    No idea why, but that solved the problem for me!

    Little side note though: after this change, it won’t work in VS2010 anymore.. (neither <sc: /> nor <asp: />)

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