[Solved] Intellisense and Possible Installation Issues

[David]

Hi,

We have recently added the MVC extensions to an MVC 3 project at work. So, the project was not created using the Telerik MVC 3 template. The extensions were added after the fact. We added them using Nuget.
The only way we can get intellisense for the extensions is if we place @using(@Html.Telerik ) ... (going from memory there).

Anyhow, I have never had to include a @using statement in my other Telerik MVC projects and there does not seem to be anything in the doco to suggest that @using would be required.

So my question is, what have we done wrong such that our project requires this @using statement to use the Telerik extensions?

Cheers

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello David,

 Intellisense needs the namespaces to be imported. In most cases this can be done globally from web.config. For razor you should add this to your web.config:

<system.web.webPages.razor>
<pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
    <namespaces>
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />

        <add namespace="Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI" />
    </namespaces>
</pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>

You can find additional info in the Razor help topic.

Regards,

Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[David]

Thanks very much for that.
We did have the namespaces, but we did not have the element <system.web.webPages.razor>. We missed the forest for the trees on that one.

Thanks again. Much appreciated!