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Asked: 2026-05-24T01:52:05+00:00

Whenever I try to use scaffolding with EF in MVC 3 (razor) where the

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Whenever I try to use scaffolding with EF in MVC 3 (razor) where the datacontext is in another project I run into problems. The scaffolding process completes as expected and creates the controller and view just fine, but when I run the application I get the following error:

‘ViewData’ is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.

I’ve tried creating a completely fresh solution with nothing but the bare bones project templates and I still the get the same thing. What am I missing here??

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  1. Editorial Team

    I figured out my problem thanks to this post.

    ASP.NET MVC – Why doesn't my view inherits properly from System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage(of T)

    Scaffolding was really just a red herring in this case because the actual issue was just having a strongly typed view using an EntityObject. Adding the assembly to the web.config as stated in the answer fixed my problem.

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