Fix Visual Studio 2013 Razor CSHTML Intellisense in Class Library or Console Application

https://mhusseini.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/fix-visual-studio-2013-razor-cshtml-intellisense-in-class-library-or-console-application/

I tried to use a .cshtml file and the razor syntax in a console application. I was able to build the project, but the intellisense and the error tab complaint about “The name ‘Model’ does not exist in the current context“:



The usual fixes, like throwing in a web.config, didn’t work. But then I found a fix to solve that problem. Here are the steps:

make sure you have the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC nuget package and its dependecies installed
clean and build your project, close your .cshtml-files
copy the following DLLs from Debug (or the mode you’re in) right to the bin folderMicrosoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll
System.Web.Helpers.dll
System.Web.Mvc.dll
System.Web.Razor.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.dll
System.Web.WebPages.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll



open your .cshtml file
it should workReason: I guess it’s because in a normal web project there is only a bin folder, no Debug or Release. Visual Studio seems to look directly into that folder for…