[Solved] How do I start unsing the Open Source Version of MVC2 Telerik controls?

[Toby]

Hello,
I have just started my journey on MVC.  First thing I noticed when designing the Views was has much the same look like as the ASP of old with code inter mixed with UI.  Coming from a Web Forms I saw this a lacking.  Nonetheless I am new and see huge benefits in other areas of MVC, one being unit testing.  I have now looked into using the Telerik controls, I thought it would be as simple as reference the telerik.web.mvc.dll in my project and the extensions would appear. Sadly not.  i.e Html.Telerik...  How do I get this working in my own project?

[Toby]

Sorry maybe I should read Installation Instructions. :-/

[Toby]

I speak to soon.  In the demo it mentions to add the

<namespaces>
     <add namespace="Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI" />
</namespaces>

in the webconfig file. I am using MVC 2 and my webconfig does not have this format

It has
 
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <httpHandlers>
      <add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler"/>
    </httpHandlers>
    <!--
        Enabling request validation in view pages would cause validation to occur
        after the input has already been processed by the controller. By default
        MVC performs request validation before a controller processes the input.
        To change this behavior apply the ValidateInputAttribute to a
        controller or action.
    -->
    <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>
</configuration>


So where do I put this name space?

[Mateus]

Hello,

There is only one syntax for web.config. Here is a link to where the namespace tag needs to be placed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164642.aspx. Also, for future reference, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dayb112d.aspx for the system.web tag.

It would look something like this:

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <namespaces>
      <add namespace="Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI" />
    </namespaces>

    <httpHandlers>
      <add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler"/>
    </httpHandlers>
.
.
.
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Hope this helps!