RazorGenerator can't see custom cshtml helper

Question

I\'m having a problem with RazorGenerator: it can\'t compile views that uses my custom helper:

App_Code/ViewHelper.cshtml

@helper test(System.Web.Mvc.Ht         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem with RazorGenerator when I updated to MVC 5.

According to this discussion on RazorGenerator's codeplex, it seems that the RazorGenerator.MsBuild package sometimes has a problem resolving the correct version of Razor to use, so ends up missing the namespaces defined in the web.config.

To force it to use the correct version of Razor (and hopefully pick up your namespaces), create a file called razorgenerator.directives in the project folder containing the text: RazorVersion: 3