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Asked: 2026-05-20T09:20:22+00:00

I’m running ASP.NET MVC 3 and I’m looking at a Edit view for my

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I’m running ASP.NET MVC 3 and I’m looking at a Edit view for my model. I’ve got a FullName property which I want to render as “Full name”.

Here’s the offending line(s):

<div class="display-label">
    <%: Html.LabelFor(model => model.FullName, "Full name") %>
</div>

Now the intellisense shows that the overload exists – there are two signatures, the first taking just the Expression and the second taking both the Expression and the string to be displayed. However when I browse to the page I get the titled exception (‘no overload…’).

Anyone have any success using this overload, and any advice on what I might be missing?

Update: I’ve tried reinstalling MVC3 to no avail. However I have noticed this in the compiler output on the error page:

c:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.Mvc\2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\
    System.Web.Mvc.dll: (Location of symbol related to previous error)

Which indicates to me that I’m using MVC 2, not MVC 3.

What have I misconfigured, or why would my IIS be using MVC 2 rather than MVC 3? How can I fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should check your web config if this was an MVC 2 project at one point.

    You might be referencing the correct version of the DLL in the project References but pulling in 2.0.0.0 in the web config when it runs…?

    http://blog.devlpr.net/2010/07/27/upgrading-an-asp-net-mvc-2-project-to-asp-net-mvc-3/

    In my MVC3 app:

    <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
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