System.Web.Mvc missing error while building ASP.NET MVC 3 using NAnt

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My MVC 3 project is building successfully in my development machine with Visual Studio 2010 + MVC 3. In the build server, VS2010 is not used and I've installed 'ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update'. I've also downloaded NAnt and used TortoiseSVN to checkout all the files except bin directories.

But while building using Nant default.build, I'm getting build error

'The type or namespace name 'Mvc' does not exist in the namespace
'System.Web'

(are you missing an assembly reference?). Same with 'Controller', 'ActionResult', 'GlobalFilterCollection' etc (type or namespace could not be found).

I can see System.Web.Mvc.dll in

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.Mvc\v4.0_3.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\

. What am I missing here? Why NAnt can't find this file? Is there no other way than copying the assembly files into local bin?

Best Answer

I had the same issue and wasn't able to locate the System.Web.MVC reference assembly.

Finally found out and it was located inside the following location.

Note if your VS was installed in C: (Sometimes the MVC is not in the defaul location which everybody talk about, i mean the "Reference Assemblies" folder located in the C: drive.

if its not there, it should definitely be in here:

Program files(x86) --> Microsoft ASP.NET --> ASP.NET MVC 2 --> Assemblies System.Web.Mvc.dll

Hope this one is helpful.

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C# – File Upload ASP.NET MVC 3.0

You don't use a file input control. Server side controls are not used in ASP.NET MVC. Checkout the following blog post which illustrates how to achieve this in ASP.NET MVC.

So you would start by creating an HTML form which would contain a file input:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
{
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}

and then you would have a controller to handle the upload:

public class HomeController : Controller
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    public ActionResult Index()
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            var fileName = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
            // store the file inside ~/App_Data/uploads folder
            var path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/uploads"), fileName);
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        return RedirectToAction("Index");        
    }
}

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