I am wokring in ASP.Net MVC (.Net 4.0) with T4MVC template.
So far this file was getting updated with entries automatically whenever I used to add new files into my project (like controllers, views, etc.).
But for some reason, it has stopped updating itself. I have just added new folder into project with 3 aspx files and also related controllers and models. But still T4MVC does not show these things at all and the compiler gives errors for missing things.
Can anybody please help me figuring out the reason?
Thanks!
T4MVC will not update itself.
You have to Right-Click the .tt files in your solution explorer and click Run Custom Tool.
When you do this, your solution will also compile.
T4MVC changes all your controller methods to virtual and writes overrides for them. So when you compile sometime, T4MVC will have a compile error, thats probably because you renamed or changed the signature of a method in your controller. Delete this method off from T4MVC and click Run Custom Tool to regenerate.
See this answer for details on T4MVC:
ASP.NET MVC3 How to reference views directly from controller
That's correct, though if you install Chirpy (chirpy.codeplex.com) it can update T4MVC automatically.
AutoT4MVC is a nice little light weight option that does the auto-running of the custom tool.
It only does T4MVC though so if you use Chirpy for other stuff it may be worth keeping.
If you want to autorun t4mvc check-out this Visual Studio pugin http://chirpy.codeplex.com/ . It has also very nice other features.
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I installed Umbraco 8.4 as per the instructions found at https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Getting-Started/Setup/Install/install-umbraco-with-nuget
Once done within Visual Studio 2017 i tried to created a new Controller and the folder (Controllers) was missing.
I'm not sure if i've missed something but i didnt want to create the folder manually in case it introduces new problems later down the line.
I thought to recreate the project but instead of selecting Empty as the project to use MVC but after reading through a few threads it seems the correct way is to select an empty project.
Under the bin directory i do see System.Web.Mvc.dll
Am i missing something?
You should definitely not use the MVC project template when creating a new project - that will add all sorts of dependencies that will likely conflict with what comes with the Umbraco NuGet package.
Go with the "Empty" template and then add in the NuGet and it will give you the dependencies you need for Umbraco to run. If you need to add in other stuff from MVC afterwards, you can add these in a version that aligns with what the Umbraco package has added.
In regards to the Controllers folder - it really doesn't matter where this folder lives or what it is called. Controllers are registered by other means. You are totally fine to create this folder manually and call it whatever you prefer.
I think most people actually prefer to keep Controllers in a completely separate project in the VS solution. Then reference that project by your main project to ensure the compiled DLL is included in your web project - and thereby your controllers can be used by the Umbraco website itself. By doing this, you get a clean separation of your .cs source files so you won't accidentally be deploying those when you deploy your site. To do this you would of course require to add UmbracoCms.Core NuGet package to your other project in order to use Umbraco functionality.
Keep in mind if you are adding plain MVC controllers (not inheriting from the Umbraco base controllers - and therefore not getting automatically registered) you will need to manually register these controllers in the route table in order to access them.
This is no different from what you would do in a normal ASP.NET MVC project, but since this isn't added by default in an Umbraco project - you need to do it yourself.
See this answer for instructions on how to do it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56972929/336105
I had a solution that included both an ASP.NET MVC web project and a WebAPI project. The solution was created originally with VS2012, but I recently upgraded it to VS2013.
I just noticed when going to add a controller that I'm not getting the correct options in the right click menu. For instance if I go to the web project and right click the controllers folder, the option to add a controller isn't there. Instead I have add WebAPI controller. It's exactly the opposite for the WebAPI project.
Things seem to build and run ok so far, but it's going to be a pain manually adding things and I'm wondering if something else might break. Any idea why this is happening or how to fix it?
I would guess that project type is different in your csproj. Take a look at this question:
What is the significance of ProjectTypeGuids tag in the visual studio project file
Here is what I have on my machine for c# asp.net mvc project:
<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>
Take a look at your guids and see what they mean.
You could see the meaning of the different GUID in the register :
•HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Projects for
ProjectTypeGuids
•HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Packages for
packages reference by some project
Using Visual Studio 2013, create a new ASP.NET Web Application project using the MVC template. Verify that the Add View dialog functions by right-clicking the "Views\Home" folder and choosing "Add... View".
Now add a new F# Library project to the solution. The Add View dialog should still function correctly.
Now add a project reference from the MVC project to the F# project by right-clicking the References folder, choosing Add Reference, Then browse to Solution...Projects on the left and checking the F# library project that you just added.
At this point, if you right-click the "Views\Home" folder and choose "Add... View" you will get an error in a pop-up alert box instead of the Add View dialog:
There was an error running the selected code generator: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'
Workarounds include, but are hopefully not limited to:
Remove all your references to any F# projects every time you want to add a new view.
Unload any referenced F# projects, but leave the project references in place, every time you want to add a new view.
My questions are:
Are other people seeing this behavior, or is it just me?
Does anyone know of a better work-around than removing references or unloading F# projects?
Does anyone know if Microsoft is already working on fixing this? If not should this be reported to the F# team or the Visual Studio team?
Between this issue and the fact that it is still impossible to use NuGet to add an Entity Framework 6 reference to any F# project, I'm starting to get nervous about Microsoft's level of commitment to the F# language.
Not sure if this will help you but check the version of EntityFramework in your solution. I had two projects within my solution and for whatever reason, the web project had EF 6 and the class library project was EF 6.1. Once I uninstalled EF completely from the solution and reinstalled EF 6.1 on both project, the "Add new view" action started working.
I received the same error message when adding views or controllers in a C# & MVC multi-project solution, using EF 6.1 and VS2013 with Update 3. The problem was because the nuget "packages" folder was marked as read only, because it was checked into source control. I checked the entire folder out, making it editable, and it started working fine, allowing me to scaffold straight from VS.
I also received the error message in a web.api project because I forgot to add the Entity Framework connection string to the web.config (it was using Areas and EF was looking in the Area web.config, not the web.config in the root).
I tried upgrading the solution to MVC3 in VS2010 by using an upgrader tool
I don't know what it does exactly but it didn't work. My "System.Web.Mvc" is not being recognized in my project.
Is there anything specific I should be doing with my web.config? I don't quite understand the underlying details about all the places I should be referencing dll's or what "binding" even means and when I should use it inside the web.config
So I have to ask, what is the best method for upgrading to MVC3 and what have you done that works?
Thanks a bunch friends.
You mean the reference? What happens if you delete the reference from the project and add it back from the file location where you installed MVC3?
i created a blank webforms project instead of an MVC 3 project in visual studio, everything runs fine but i dont have my menues
for example when i right click on the Controllers folder i dont get "Add a controller" option.
does anyone know without starting a new project how to change the type of project into an MVC one so that i get the correct menus.
thanks
It's not that you don't have the menu options, it's that it's a completely different type of [web] application and works in different ways. e.g. Webforms has no concept of controllers so even if you did have a menu option it wouldn't get included in the project as you're expecting.
Because webForms and MVC are so different there could never be a 100% reliable conversion utility.
Just create a new project and copy the files already created. I can't imagine you've written that much code before realising that you're in WebForms, not MVC.
If you have got lots of WebForms code you could always just include this in the MVC project until you can convert it (if necessary) at a later time.
Edit:
If you just want to change the project type you can edit the csproj file of the webforms project and add the following ProjectTypeGuid {F85E285D-A4E0-4152-9332-AB1D724D3325};.
You'll need to update references, files, etc. for this to work but it may be quicker than creating a new project and copying content over. (Especially if you already have the project in source control.)
Note that I've only tested this going from WebForms 4 to MVC2.
Try updating a MVC to ASP.NET Fall Update Release Candidate. There is a link .