ASP.Net MVC4 Root cshtml and “does not inherit from 'System.Web.WebPages.WebPage”

Question

I have followed the answers provided by very similar posts as you will see in the step by step listed below.

• Razor view Type does not inherit from 'Syst

Answer 1

I am a beginner to this, but one thing I did not realise is that cshtml pages are served through a controller, rather than by loading them directly.

In combination with the above, I also had to set the following key to false in the web.config file: