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

Do not delete the webconfig, is a very important file in your views!!!

Instead, do this:

Enable "View all Files" in the web project that is failing, and search for a file that seems correct but is not included in visual studio, and delete it. If it fails in your deployment folder, try to clean the folder as well, and re-deploy the site, you might have unnecesary files that might cause the same problem.

In my case, at the root of the webproject I had an extra copy of _ViewStart.cshtml (excluded from the project), I deleted that file, and that did the trick.

Hope it helps, let me know if this solve your problem as well.