[Solved] Telerik MVC Controls with ASP.NET Areas

[Darren]

Hi All.

This post is meant as a help to those who, like me, have searched for help on using the Telerik MVC controls within a new ASP.NET Area and have trouble finding anything specific.  In order to get the controls working in an ASP.NET Area, there are two basic steps to follow:

1)  Add a web.config file to the Views folder in the new Area with a reference to the Telerik MVC controls, as shown below:

<system.web.webPages.razor>
    <host factoryType . . . />
    <pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
      <namespaces>
        . . .
        <add namespace="Telerik.Web.Mvc" />
        <add namespace="Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI" />
      </namespaces>
    </pages>
  </system.web.webPages.razor>

2) Add a new Partial View called _ViewStart to the Views folder in the new ASP.NET area with the following content:

@{
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

This will set your default layout for all pages to the same layout as is used for the root of the application, including all references to CSS and JavaScript files.

I hope this helps.

-Darren

[Georgi Tunev]

Hi Darren,

Thank you for sharing your solution with the community - I am sure it will be of help to other users. If you want, you could provide a full demo project in our Code Library section and we will be glad to reward you with Telerik points in return :)


Regards,
Georgi Tunev
the Telerik team

[Brian Lanham]

Thank you very much!