While I’m loving MVC3 and the Razor view engine, I was sorely disappointed when I couldn’t use the
system.web/pages/namespaces collection in web.config to add global namespace includes.
After a bit of hunting and looking through the web.config files underneath the views folder (in each Area), I found that
this can be accomplished by adding the following to the root web.config file:
| <configuration> | |
| <configSections> | |
| ... | |
| ... | |
| <sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"> | |
| <section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" /> | |
| </sectionGroup> | |
| </configSections> | |
| ... | |
| ... | |
| <system.web.webPages.razor> | |
| <pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage"> | |
| <namespaces> | |
| <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" /> | |
| <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" /> | |
| <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" /> | |
| <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" /> | |
| </namespaces> | |
| </pages> | |
| </system.web.webPages.razor> | |
| ... | |
| ... | |
| </configuration> |
Now you can add any namespaces you require under the new razor namespaces section.