I'm upgraded my project to Razor view engine,

Question

I have upgraded to MVC3 and Razor, everything works fine. However, in my return View(model); the "View" is red and VS2010 will helpfully suggest I generate a view. When I do, it generates a aspx/WebForms view. There's no other aspx files in the project, and if I run the project, the Razor view engine works fine. There's obviously a setting somewhere that tells VS2010 which to default to, I can't find it. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you can create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project and add a Razor view as expected then the project where you are seeing this behavior is missing the ASP.NET MVC 3 project type guid, which you can find in a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project's .csproj file. If you can't do this than you should try reinstalling the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update.

Answer 2

These are not explicit answer but rather a list of actions that you could try..

• In the csproj file of your project make sure that the <ProjectGuidType> are set to <ProjectTypeGuids>{E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>
• Try changing the ProjectGuid to some other Guid (last post). You will need to update the sln file or simply recreate the solution.
• Not sure what method you used to upgrade, but have a look at the MVC 3 Upgrade Tool from CodePlex