While I was working on some code today and found that some NuGet packages where out of date. So I went to update tab in Manage NuGet packages window and updated all of them. MySql.Data package (not important which package, just an example) was also updated in that from…
Did you encountered following exception / error when trying to run ASP.NET MVC web application? The view must derive from WebViewPage, or WebViewPage or Type 'ASP._Page_Views__ViewStart_cshtml' does not inherit from 'System.Web.WebPages.StartPage'. I encountered while I was playing with MVC 5 (applies to MVC…
Another application configuration setting you will observe in web.config of your ASP.NET MVC application is webpages:Version <add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" /> The value for this setting currently is showing 3.0.0.0. This indicates the version…
If you open your web.config at root of your MVC project you will find bunch of default appsetting keys added by MVC or WebAPI. One of the appsetting with key webpapges:Enabled is added which as default value as false. So what is the deal with this appsetting? To…
When creating a MVC project using Visual Studio you will observe that creation process will add two web.config files to your project. In root of the project folder. In the root of the Views folder in the project folder. Question: The web.config in the root of the project…
In programming world everything is not a piece of cake. At times you need to do things more than available out-of-the-box. One of the common thing you seems to do is to modify or access your application’s configuration. There are two type of configuration files: App.Config (Used by…