ASP.NET MVC 4 build fails

Question

I created a new team project in TFS Preview and a new ASP.NET MVC4 based Azure Web Role. The build server dies when building the website with the following errors:

App_Start\BundleConfig.cs (2): The type or namespace name 'Optimization' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Global.asax.cs (5): The type or namespace name 'Infrastructure' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Data.Entity' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Global.asax.cs (10): The type or namespace name 'Optimization' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

App_Start\BundleConfig.cs (8): The type or namespace name 'BundleCollection' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

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Answer 1

Is your project targeted to 4.5 framework or 4.0?

Answer 2

It targets 4.0. If I deploy directly to Azure it runs without hitch.

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Answer 3

It looks like you are missing the assemblies needed for building the project successfully on TFS Server. Could you try checking in the needed assemblies to TFS and kick off a build again?

Thanks,

Kirthi

Answer 4

So which assemblies should I check in? I know in VS2010 there was an option to automatically add the MVC assemblies to the project. I don't see the option in 2012. Does TFS 2012 not include the MVC4 assemblies built in?

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Answer 5

I just looked in source control. All of the MVC dependencies are checked in under the nuget packages folder. But it looks like the MVC 4 template references the GAC instead.

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Answer 6

Uninstalled and reinstalled the nuget packages fixed the reference for me.

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