C# and Razor - The type of page you have requested is not served because it has been explicitly forbidden. The extension '.cshtml' may be incorrect

Question

I have looked through other posts but none seem to answer what I need.

• I created an empty site in WebMatrix (ASP.NET)
• I opened that site in VWD 2013

Answer 1

In my case I set webpages:Enabled to true under appSettings:

According to post: what is the function of webpages:Enabled in MVC 3 web.config, this prevents files in the Views folder from being directly accessible from a web browser.