I'm having an extremely hard time to get @Html.ActionLink(...) and/or @Html.RouteLink(...) to be resolved in my cshtml view, which should become part of an MVC5 AngularJS webapplication. I didn't expect it to be that hard.
This matter is really driving me crazy.
I have tried:
- installing (by Nuget or other method),
- uninstalling,
- starting a new MVC project from scratch,
- vs2013Pro/vs2015 community edition.
The only thing I haven't try yet is switching to another computer. But so far, I always end up that these 2 helper methods not being resolved in my cshtml view, regardless of the arguments added.
I have had moments that one or both of the above helpers were being resolved by Visual Studio successfully in IntelliSense, but for some reason, when I try to do further useful steps or even just save the project, the active DLLs are switched again, and IntelliSense stops working, and browser execution fails there. Also ViewBag is most of the time unresolved. But that's less important in my case.
It even seems like some agent always makes the DLLs that I need vanish, and replace it by always the same incomplete or old dll versions. I can't get this under my control.
My cshtml view starts like
@{
ViewBag.Title = "My main view page";
Layout = "MyLayout.cshtml";
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
@model AngularMVCWebsite.Models.MySituationMode
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title></title>
<h2>@ViewBag.Title.</h2>
<script>
...
and so on. @Html itself is no problem to resolve.
I may need to take into account that some DLLs are obsolete and replaced by others. But what's a good set of DLLs and their latest good versions? Maybe I can install all at once using a specific recent nuget install? From there I probably can continue without further help.
Can anyone put me in the right direction?
The main thing is to get the proper dlls in place and active and make sure that they stay in place after saving and quitting VS2015/VS2013.
Any educated help much appreciated.
Have you tried installing the lastest Mvc Nuget Package?
If it is already installed please update it.
From your console: Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc -Version 5.2.3
Or you can install it from nugget directly.