Kendo UI reference not working in Razor view

Question

I am trying to create a Telerik Grid view but when I go to reference kendo it does not recognize it. Visual Studio is giving me an error when I try to reference kendo. This is t

Answer 1

When you created your project you had to have selected the right project type. There is the Telerik asp.net MVC application project type and the Kendo UI Asp.net MVC 5 project type. Picking the Kendo UI project type will provide you with the javascript kendo classes. This is for when you want to use Kendo through javascript, I had the same issue until I went back and chose the right project type. I spent a day and a half trying to add the .net class libraries because my razor wouldn't work. I think Visual studio was just confused about what I was trying to do and I probably was missing a .net class library.