Developing ASP.NET MVC using MonoDevelop on MAC - asp.net-mvc

Question

I am developing a web app using ASP.NET MVC 2.0 in MonoDevelop. I have latest Mono 2.10 and MonoDevelop 2.4.2 and I am running them on Mac.
According to mono’s release notes, it should support ASP.NET MVC 2.0. However, I found MonoDevelop’s project templates still only support ASP.NET MVC 1.0. So I had to create MVC project from MonoDevelop and remove system.web.mvc 1.0.0.0 from reference and add system.web.mvc 2.0.0.0 back in. I can write and compile code OK and MonoDevelop does provide intellisense for methods only exist in MVC 2.0 from both C# and aspx file. However, when I trying to run it from MonoDevelop, I had Compilation error complaining ”<%: Html.LabelFor(model => model.Name) %>” as LabelFor method cannot be recognized .
MonoDevelop uses XSP as its testing web server. I am not sure how it configured as I didn’t install it myself. I think it was installed as part of MonoDevelop. My guess is XSP somehow still uses MVC 1.0 but I can't prove it as I couldn’t even find where it is installed.
Could anyone help me out please?
Update:
I have been suspecting web.config too. Here are how they look like now:
web.config
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation defaultLanguage="C#" debug="true">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</assemblies>
</compilation>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly">
</customErrors>
<pages>
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
</namespaces>
</pages>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
web.config under views
<configuration>
<system.web>
<httpHandlers>
<add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" />
</httpHandlers>
<pages validateRequest="false" pageParserFilterType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewTypeParserFilter, System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage, System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
userControlBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl, System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">
<controls>
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"
namespace="System.Web.Mvc" tagPrefix="mvc" />
</controls>
</pages>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<handlers>
<remove name="BlockViewHandler" />
<add name="BlockViewHandler" path="*" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>

Answer 1

Setting up an ASP.NET project for ASP.NET MVC requires changing and adding a load of settings in web.config. The project template in MD is for ASP.NET MVC 1.0, not ASP.NET MVC 2, so you're probably missing some of the necessary settings, maybe a namespace import.

Answer 2

I have this running with two of my current projects on MacOS X. There were only three steps I needed to make sure were done, they are as follows:
Upgrade the version on all references in both the inner (views) web config and the outter(app) [you've done this].
Dereference System.Web.MVC 1.0.0.0 & Reference 2.0.0.0 for the project
Ensure you don't have 1.0.0.0 binaries in your bin path, the public key does not change

Answer 3

I've done a downloadable zip file of a project template for Asp.Net MVC 4 which builds and runs on/in Mono/Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop on Mac & Linux at http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p1319/run-asp-net-mvc4-on-mono-monodevelop-on-mac-the-c-template-project.
I should add that a lot of the issue resolution came from Does the Razor View Engine work for Mono?