Deploy MVC Razor to Godaddy - Viewbag does not exist

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I am working on a solution that I just created a week ago, and I know that it is the latest version of visual studio and the latest version of MVC. It runs perfectly on my local environment, but when I deploy to my godaddy hosting, it gives me a compilation error: Viewbag does not exist in this context.

I had to add a few references to my project and set a bunch to copy local before I would even get that far. I have seen all sorts of stuff about having to upgrade old visual studio solutions to MVC3 to support razor.

From everything I can see, I have done everything I need to on my end. Does anyone know if it's just Godaddy not supporting Razor yet?

Posted 21-May-11 19:54pm

DannyStaten

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Keith Barrow · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-22T08:40:00

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The Viewbag is part of .net 4.0 (it is a dynamic object), so you have to make sure your account is running under that. I think the Razor View Engine is .net 4 too, it certainly comes with MVC3.

http://help.godaddy.com/article/687[^]

You might find this thread useful, about deployment (MVC2 under 3.5, but the principles will be the same)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/266205/is-there-a-way-that-i-can-run-a-asp-net-mvc-project-on-godaddy-com-shared-web-hos[^]

If the above fails (or before riksing the effort!) you might want to ask the support fora there, this looks useful as someone has achived what you want: http://community.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/topic/mvc-3/[^]

Posted 22-May-11 8:40am

Keith Barrow

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DannyStaten 22-May-11 14:44pm

I have already verified several times that my godaddy hosting is running IIS 7.0 and .net 4. I also have checked the bin and I have local copies of all the dlls that their articles mention (IE Microsift.Infrastructure, System.Web.Razor etc etc). I will have to check that one more time because EVERYTHING I can find seems to say that just getting the right dlls in your bin should make everything work.

Before I updated my bin, I would get an error that the dependencies in my web.config couldn't be found. So I wonder if I am missing a namespace in my web.config which is causing the code to not know where to find ViewBag. If that were the case though, it should not work locally... grumble.

DannyStaten 23-May-11 23:22pm

So it is really strange. I created a new mvc application and made it an exact copy of the one that would not publish. The newly created and spun up project published and ran without a hitch. I had already done the things that you were kind enough to give me as tips, so in my odd world it was something else. That being said, I do appreciate you posting a great answer, and one that is likely to answer 99.9% of the people's needs should they find this thread in their searches for help. Thanks for answering.