“The name 'HTML' does not exist in the current context” in MVC 3 Views

Question

I´m starting to use \"MVC 3\" but I´m facing some little problems. In my Views, when I code something like this:

@if(Request.IsAuthenticated) {
    

        

Answer 1

In my case my Packages folder was missing including MVC and Razor so I have updated packages in packages.config, reopened the view and it worked.

Answer 2

Close Visual Studio => Delete the obj and bin folders located in your project => Start Visual Studio

Answer 3

Maybe I am a bit late to answer this question but this easy fix helped me:

Right click the file > Exclude from project. Right click the file > Include in project.

Answer 4

I have solved this issue with the old, good, wise Microsoft default solution: reinstall all the things again.

Uninstall and Reinstall the Visual Studio 2010 and MVC 3 Framework.

Answer 5

For me this just seemed to be the fact that I had compiler warnings. Code would still compile and run ok but it was not until I fixed all the build warnings that my Intellisense starting working.

Answer 6

I had this same issue in MVC 4. None of these solutions worked for me. Instead, in Windows, I went into Control Panel -> Uninstall a program. Select Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 in the program list. Click 'Uninstall.' A 'Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 Setup' wizard will display. Click 'Repair.'