Use the overload of [IncludeDirectory][1] method which accepts `bool searchSubdirectories` as third parameter.

MSDN:

&gt; searchSubdirectories - Specifies whether to recursively search
&gt; subdirectories of directoryVirtualPath.

Example:

    bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle(&quot;~/bundles/scripts&quot;)
        .IncludeDirectory(&quot;~/Scripts&quot;, &quot;*.js&quot;, true));

  [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj646468%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

I&#39;m reading up that most people do `from django.conf import settings` but I don&#39;t undertstand the difference to simply doing `import settings` in a django project file. Can anyone explain the difference?

What&#39;s the difference between `from django.conf import settings` and `import settings` in a Django project

I am trying to get something very basic running. I am used to CI and now learning Laravel 4, and their docs are not making it easy! Anyways, I am trying to create a login form and just make sure that data is posted successfully by printing it in the next form. I am getting this exception:

&gt; Symfony \ Component \ HttpKernel \ Exception \
&gt; MethodNotAllowedHttpException

and my MemberController.php:

        public function index()
    	{
    		if (Session::has(&#39;userToken&#39;))
    		{
    			/*Retrieve data of user from DB using token &amp; Load view*/
    		    return View::make(&#39;members/profile&#39;);
    		}else{
    			return View::make(&#39;members/login&#39;);
    		}
    	}
    	
    	public function validateCredentials()
    	{
    		if(Input::post())
    		{
    			$email = Input::post(&#39;email&#39;);
    			$password = Input::post(&#39;password&#39;);
    			return &quot;Email: &quot; . $email . &quot; and Password: &quot; . $password;
    		}else{
    			return View::make(&#39;members/login&#39;);
    		}
    	}

and routes has:

    Route::get(&#39;/&#39;, function()
    {
    	return View::make(&#39;hello&#39;);
    });
    
    Route::get(&#39;/members&#39;, &#39;MemberController@index&#39;);
    Route::get(&#39;/validate&#39;, &#39;MemberController@validateCredentials&#39;);

and finally my view login.php has this form direction:

    &lt;?php echo Form::open(array(&#39;action&#39; =&gt; &#39;MemberController@validateCredentials&#39;)); ?&gt;

Any help will be greatly appreciated.





laravel throwing MethodNotAllowedHttpException

When using `BundleConfig` is it possible to include all files of a folder including all the files of the childfolders (and their childfolders etc.)?

I found `.IncludeDirectory()` but it seems to only include the files of the folder itself, not the files of the subfolders.

Include all files in a folder in a single bundle

<p>When using <code>BundleConfig</code> is it possible to include all files of a folder including all the files of the childfolders (and their childfolders etc.)?</p>
<p>I found <code>.IncludeDirectory()</code> but it seems to only include the files of the folder itself, not the files of the subfolders.</p>


A default MVC 5 App comes with this piece of code in IdentityModels.cs - this piece of code is for all the ASP.NET Identity operations for the default templates:

    public class ApplicationDbContext : IdentityDbContext&lt;ApplicationUser&gt;
    {
        public ApplicationDbContext()
            : base(&quot;DefaultConnection&quot;)
        {
        }
    }

If I scaffold a new controller using views with Entity Framework and create a &quot;New data context...&quot; in the dialog, I get this generated for me:

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Data.Entity;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Web;
    
    namespace WebApplication1.Models
    {
        public class AllTheOtherStuffDbContext : DbContext
        {
            // You can add custom code to this file. Changes will not be overwritten.
            // 
            // If you want Entity Framework to drop and regenerate your database
            // automatically whenever you change your model schema, please use data migrations.
            // For more information refer to the documentation:
            // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj591621.aspx
        
            public AllTheOtherStuffDbContext() : base(&quot;name=AllTheOtherStuffDbContext&quot;)
            {
            }
    
            public System.Data.Entity.DbSet&lt;WebApplication1.Models.Movie&gt; Movies { get; set; }
        
        }
    } 

If I scaffold another controller + view using EF, say for instance for an Animal model, this new line would get autogenerated right under `public System.Data.Entity.DbSet&lt;WebApplication1.Models.Movie&gt; Movies { get; set; }` - like this:

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Data.Entity;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Web;
    
    namespace WebApplication1.Models
    {
        public class AllTheOtherStuffDbContext : DbContext
        {
            // You can add custom code to this file. Changes will not be overwritten.
            // 
            // If you want Entity Framework to drop and regenerate your database
            // automatically whenever you change your model schema, please use data migrations.
            // For more information refer to the documentation:
            // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj591621.aspx
    
            public AllTheOtherStuffDbContext() : base(&quot;name=AllTheOtherStuffDbContext&quot;)
            {
            }
    
            public System.Data.Entity.DbSet&lt;WebApplication1.Models.Movie&gt; Movies { get; set; }
            public System.Data.Entity.DbSet&lt;WebApplication1.Models.Animal&gt; Animals { get; set; }
    
        }
    } 


`ApplicationDbContext` (for all the ASP.NET Identity stuff) inherits from `IdentityDbContext` which in turn inherits from `DbContext`.
`AllOtherStuffDbContext` (for my own stuff) inherits from `DbContext`.

So my question is:

Which of these two (`ApplicationDbContext` and `AllOtherStuffDbContext`) should I use for all my other own models? Or should I just use the default autogenerated `ApplicationDbContext` since it shouldn&#39;t be a problem using it since it derives from the base class `DbContext`, or will there be some overhead? You should use only one `DbContext` object in your app for all your models (I&#39;ve read this somewhere) so I should not even consider using both `ApplicationDbContext` and `AllOtherStuffDbContext` in a single app? Or what is best practice in MVC 5 with ASP.NET Identity?


ASP.NET Identity DbContext confusion

Is it possible to use the new Asp.net Identity with Database First and EDMX? Or only with code first?

Here&#39;s what I did:

1) I made a new MVC5 Project and had the new Identity create the new User and Roles tables in my database.

2) I then opened my Database First EDMX file and dragged in the new Identity Users table since I have other tables that relate to it.

3) Upon saving the EDMX, the Database First POCO generator will auto create a User class. However, UserManager and RoleManager expects a User class inheriting from the new Identity namespace (Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.IUser), so using the POCO User class won&#39;t work.

I guess a possible solution is to edit my POCO Generation Classes to have my User class inherit from IUser?

Or is ASP.NET Identity only compatible with Code First Design?


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Update:  Following Anders Abel&#39;s suggestion below, this is what I did. It work&#39;s, but I&#39;m wondering if there is a more elegant solution.

1) I extended my entity User class by creating a partial class within the same namespace as my auto generated entities.

    namespace MVC5.DBFirst.Entity
    {
        public partial class AspNetUser : IdentityUser
        {
        }
    }

2) I changed my DataContext to inherit from IdentityDBContext instead of DBContext. Note that every time you update your EDMX and regenerate the DBContext and Entity classes, you&#39;ll have to set this back to this.

     public partial class MVC5Test_DBEntities : IdentityDbContext&lt;AspNetUser&gt;  //DbContext

3) Within your auto generated User entity class, you must add the override keyword to the following 4 fields or comment these fields out since they are inherited from IdentityUser (Step 1).  Note that every time you update your EDMX and regenerate the DBContext and Entity classes, you&#39;ll have to set this back to this.
    
        override public string Id { get; set; }
        override public string UserName { get; set; }
        override public string PasswordHash { get; set; }
        override public string SecurityStamp { get; set; }

ASP.NET Identity with EF Database First MVC5

I&#39;ve been working on an MVC 4 solution, and I&#39;ve been trying to upgrade it to MVC 5. I&#39;ve followed the steps outlined [here](http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/how-to-upgrade-an-aspnet-mvc-4-and-web-api-project-to-aspnet-mvc-5-and-web-api-2).

I&#39;ve followed it, and now whenever I run the MVC Application, it gives me this error message:

    [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to 
    [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. 

    Type A originates from 
    &#39;System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
    PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35&#39; in the context &#39;Default&#39; at location 
    &#39;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.WebPages.Razor\v4.0_2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll&#39;. 
    Type B originates from &#39;System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
    PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35&#39; in the context &#39;Default&#39; at location 
    &#39;C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET 
    Files\root\665ac028\de53a189\assembly\dl3\c2c0a4b5\56e8099e_40e0ce01\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll&#39;.


Does anyone know how this could have originated? or how it can be solved? I&#39;ve looked around thus far? I&#39;ve tried changing the web.config files, with no avail...

Razor 2 to Razor 3 MVC 5

so I have an MVC Asp.net app that is having issues. Essentially, I have a View that contains a form, and its contents are bound to a list of objects. Within this loop, it loads PartialView&#39;s with the items being looped over. Now everything works up till the submittion of the form. When it gets submitted, the controller is sent a null list of objects. The code below demonstates the problems. 

Parent View:

    @model IEnumerable&lt;PlanCompareViewModel&gt;
    @using (Html.BeginForm(&quot;ComparePlans&quot;, &quot;Plans&quot;, FormMethod.Post, new { id = &quot;compareForm&quot; }))
    {
    &lt;div&gt;
        @foreach (var planVM in Model)
        {
            @Html.Partial(&quot;_partialView&quot;, planVM)
        }
    &lt;/div&gt;
    }

_partialView:
    
    @model PlanCompareViewModel
    &lt;div&gt;
        @Html.HiddenFor(p =&gt; p.PlanID)
        @Html.HiddenFor(p =&gt; p.CurrentPlan)
        @Html.CheckBoxFor(p =&gt; p.ShouldCompare)
       &lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Compare&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;

And these are the classes for the above code:

PlanViewModel: 

    public class PlansCompareViewModel
    {

        public int PlanID { get; set; }
        public Plan CurrentPlan { get; set; }
        public bool ShouldCompare { get; set; }
        public PlansCompareViewModel(Plan plan)
        {
            ShouldCompare = false;
            PlanID = plan.PlanId;
            CurrentPlan = plan;
        }

        public PlansCompareViewModel()
        {
            // TODO: Complete member initialization
        }
        public static IEnumerable&lt;PlansCompareViewModel&gt; CreatePlansVM(IEnumerable&lt;Plan&gt; plans)
        {
            return plans.Select(p =&gt; new PlansCompareViewModel(p)).AsEnumerable();
        }
    }

Controller:

    public class PlansController : MyBaseController
    {
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult ComparePlans(IEnumerable&lt;PlanCompareViewModel&gt; model)
        {
             //the model passed into here is NULL
        }
    }
And the problem is in the controller action. As far as I am aware, it should be posting an enumerable list of PlanCompareViewModels, yet it is null. When in inspect the post data being sent, it is sending the correct params. And if I were to change &#39;IEnumerable&lt;PlanCompareViewModel&gt;&#39; to &#39;FormCollection&#39;, it contains the correct values. Can anyone see why the binder is not creating the correct object? I can get around this using javascript, but that defeats the purpose! Any help would be greatly appreciated!


MVC Form not able to post List of objects

I am having an issue with the anti-forgery token :(
I have created my own User class which worked fine but now I am getting an error whenever I go to the **/Account/Register** page. The error is:

&gt; A claim of type
&gt; &#39;http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/nameidentifier&#39;
&gt; or
&gt; &#39;http://schemas.microsoft.com/accesscontrolservice/2010/07/claims/identityprovider&#39;
&gt; was not present on the provided ClaimsIdentity. To enable anti-forgery
&gt; token support with claims-based authentication, please verify that the
&gt; configured claims provider is providing both of these claims on the
&gt; ClaimsIdentity instances it generates. If the configured claims
&gt; provider instead uses a different claim type as a unique identifier,
&gt; it can be configured by setting the static property
&gt; AntiForgeryConfig.UniqueClaimTypeIdentifier.


I found this article:

http://stack247.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/antiforgerytoken-a-claim-of-type-nameidentifier-or-identityprovider-was-not-present-on-provided-claimsidentity/

so I changed my **Application_Start** method to this:

    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

        FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
        RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);

        AntiForgeryConfig.UniqueClaimTypeIdentifier = ClaimTypes.Email;
    }

but when I do that, I get this error: 

&gt; A claim of type
&gt; &#39;http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress&#39;
&gt; was not present on the provided ClaimsIdentity.

Has anyone come across this before? If so, do you know how to solve it? 


---

Here is my custom user class:

    public class Profile : User, IProfile
    {
        public Profile()
            : base()
        {
            this.LastLoginDate = DateTime.UtcNow;
            this.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;
        }

        public Profile(string userName)
            : base(userName)
        {
            this.CreatedBy = this.Id;

            this.LastLoginDate = DateTime.UtcNow;
            this.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

            this.IsApproved = true;
        }
        
        [NotMapped]
        public HttpPostedFileBase File { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public string CompanyId { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public string CreatedBy { get; set; }
        public string ModifiedBy { get; set; }

        public DateTime DateCreated { get; set; }
        public DateTime? DateModified { get; set; }
        public DateTime LastLoginDate { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = &quot;RequiredTitle&quot;)]
        public string Title { get; set; }
        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = &quot;RequiredFirstName&quot;)]
        public string Forename { get; set; }
        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = &quot;RequiredLastName&quot;)]
        public string Surname { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = &quot;RequiredEmail&quot;)]
        public string Email { get; set; }
        public string JobTitle { get; set; }
        public string Telephone { get; set; }
        public string Mobile { get; set; }
        public string Photo { get; set; }
        public string LinkedIn { get; set; }
        public string Twitter { get; set; }
        public string Facebook { get; set; }
        public string Google { get; set; }
        public string Bio { get; set; }

        public string CompanyName { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = &quot;RequiredCredentialId&quot;)]
        public string CredentialId { get; set; }
        [Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources), ErrorMessageResourceName = &quot;RequiredSecurityCode&quot;)]
        public bool IsLockedOut { get; set; }
        public bool IsApproved { get; set; }

        [Display(Name = &quot;Can only edit own assets&quot;)]
        public bool CanEditOwn { get; set; }
        [Display(Name = &quot;Can edit assets&quot;)]
        public bool CanEdit { get; set; }
        [Display(Name = &quot;Can download assets&quot;)]
        public bool CanDownload { get; set; }
        [Display(Name = &quot;Require approval to upload assets&quot;)]
        public bool RequiresApproval { get; set; }
        [Display(Name = &quot;Can approve assets&quot;)]
        public bool CanApprove { get; set; }
        [Display(Name = &quot;Can synchronise assets&quot;)]
        public bool CanSync { get; set; }

        public bool AgreedTerms { get; set; }
        public bool Deleted { get; set; }
    }

    public class ProfileContext : IdentityStoreContext
    {
        public ProfileContext(DbContext db)
            : base(db)
        {
            this.Users = new UserStore&lt;Profile&gt;(this.DbContext);
        }
    }

    public class ProfileDbContext : IdentityDbContext&lt;Profile, UserClaim, UserSecret, UserLogin, Role, UserRole&gt;
    {
    }

I profile is just simple for my repositories, looks like this:

    public interface IProfile
    {
        string Id { get; set; }
        string CompanyId { get; set; }
        
        string UserName { get; set; }
        string Email { get; set; }

        string CredentialId { get; set; }
    }

and the **User** class is the **Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.User** class.
My **AccountController** looks like this:

    [Authorize]
    public class AccountController : Controller
    {
        public IdentityStoreManager IdentityStore { get; private set; }
        public IdentityAuthenticationManager AuthenticationManager { get; private set; }
        
        public AccountController() 
        {
            this.IdentityStore = new IdentityStoreManager(new ProfileContext(new ProfileDbContext()));
            this.AuthenticationManager = new IdentityAuthenticationManager(this.IdentityStore);
        }

        //
        // GET: /Account/Register
        [AllowAnonymous]
        public ActionResult Register()
        {
            return View();
        }

        //
        // POST: /Account/Register
        [HttpPost]
        [AllowAnonymous]
        public async Task&lt;ActionResult&gt; Register(RegisterViewModel model)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                try
                {
                    // Create a profile, password, and link the local login before signing in the user
                    var companyId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
                    var user = new Profile(model.UserName)
                    {
                        CompanyId = companyId,
                        Title = model.Title,
                        Forename = model.Forename,
                        Surname = model.Surname,
                        Email = model.Email,
                        CompanyName = model.CompanyName,
                        CredentialId = model.CredentialId
                    };

                    if (await IdentityStore.CreateLocalUser(user, model.Password))
                    {
                        //Create our company
                        var company = new Skipstone.Web.Models.Company()
                        {
                            Id = companyId,
                            CreatedBy = user.Id,
                            ModifiedBy = user.Id,
                            Name = model.CompanyName
                        };

                        using (var service = new CompanyService())
                        {
                            service.Save(company);
                        }

                        await AuthenticationManager.SignIn(HttpContext, user.Id, isPersistent: false);
                        return RedirectToAction(&quot;Setup&quot;, new { id = companyId });
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        ModelState.AddModelError(&quot;&quot;, &quot;Failed to register user name: &quot; + model.UserName);
                    }
                }
                catch (IdentityException e)
                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError(&quot;&quot;, e.Message);
                }
            }

            // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
            return View(model);
        }

        //
        // POST: /Account/Setup
        public ActionResult Setup(string id)
        {
            var userId = User.Identity.GetUserId();
            using (var service = new CompanyService())
            {
                var company = service.Get(id);
                var profile = new Profile()
                {
                    Id = userId,
                    CompanyId = id
                };

                service.Setup(profile);

                return View(company);
            }
        }
    }

It used to be decorated with the **[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]** attribute, but that is where it stopped working.

Why?


Anti-forgery token issues

When I want to search files I use &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;,&lt;/kbd&gt;. The search box pops up and then I start typing. But the built-in preview just grabs whatever I have typed and opens the file. Even though I am still typing. 

I am trying to open a file called `report_vaccine`, but I only get as far as `report` when the preview opens the first selected report. This has rendered this form of quick file searching pretty much useless, which is frustrating because we have hundreds of procs, and scrolling through and manually finding the file is a huge pain. 

If there is a way to turn off preview, I would be fine with that. This command working properly is waaay more important to me than a preview of the file to be opened.

I don&#39;t have resharper. I think the command was like &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt;.  



How can I turn off Visual Studio 2013 Preview?

How can you find the unused NuGet packages in a solution?

I&#39;ve got a number of solutions where there are a lot of installed packages, and a large number of them are flagged as having updates.

However, I&#39;m concerned there may be breaking changes, so I first want to clean up by removing any unused packages. 

How can you find unused NuGet packages in solution?

Is there a way to add existing Folders to a Visual Studio Project so that I do not have to do this file by file?

**Edit**

To make it clear: I want to add *references* not *copies*.

Visual Studio: Add existing folder(s) to project

This has been asked before: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6902204/why-doesnt-visual-studio-code-formatting-work-properly-for-razor-markup

But that question is a couple years old.  And Razor formatting is *still* completely unacceptable. I have given up on fixing it.

Can I disable ALL Visual Studio formatting for CSHTML files? If not, can I disable all Visual Studio formatting entirely? Any 3rd party hacks I can use? There&#39;s got to be something!

I&#39;ve upgraded to 2013 and the formatting is just as bad.

[EDIT]: 2015 is god-awful as well. I REALLY wish they would fix this.

[EDIT]: 2017 is god-awful as well. I REALLY wish they would fix this.

[EDIT]: 2019 is god-awful as well. I REALLY wish they would fix this. That said, Microsoft released a new [formatting engine][1] for .Net Core only.

[EDIT]: 2022 is... Well you know. If they ignore this 12 more years I may retire before seeing it fixed!


  [1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/new-experimental-razor-editor-for-visual-studio/

Disable Visual Studio code formatting in Razor

There are tons of questions and answers about Git versus TFVC Source Control, but no current answers cover the integration of Git into Team Foundation Server/Service that I can find.   

I&#39;m starting green pasture development using a wide variety of languages (C#, C++, PHP, Javascript, MySSQL) using Visual Studio 2013. In the future, there will be some iOS development. I&#39;m very familiar with SVN, VSS and TFVC for source control. However, I have never used Git. I prefer TFS for process management/agile development... It&#39;s not perfect, but it integrates well into Visual Studio.

So, to help me decide between these two systems...

### What are the big differences between TFVC and Git for source control when using Visual Studio 2013?  

* Is the only benefit in my case a local repository (not saying that it&#39;s insignificant) and iOS development support?
* Is the only drawback to Git the command line interface (some would argue that&#39;s not a drawback ;-P).
* Have you experienced in the Visual Studio 2013 GUI for Git? Is that enough to support basic branching/merging without the command line interface?
* Is there a detailed start-up guide for Git that shows Git being used with Visual Studio 2013? Microsoft has a video for integrating an existing Git repository into Visual Studio 2013, but I&#39;m looking for a start from scratch with Git and VS 2013.

I am not looking for a book here, but just a few bullet points and maybe some relevant links from folks that have used both TFVC and Git.

What are the big differences between TFVC (TFS Version Control) and Git for source control when using Visual Studio 2013?

My application was working fine and after I did some upgrades I am getting this error.

&gt;### Server Error in &#39;/&#39; Application.
________________________________________
&gt; Attempt by security transparent method &#39;`System.Web.Mvc.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()`&#39; to access security critical method &#39;`System.Web.WebPages.Razor.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()`&#39; failed.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

&gt;Exception Details: `System.MethodAccessException`: Attempt by security transparent method &#39;`System.Web.Mvc.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()`&#39; to access security critical method &#39;`System.Web.WebPages.Razor.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()`&#39; failed.

&gt;**Source Error**: 
&gt;An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

&gt;**Version Information**: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET      Version:4.0.30319.18055



I cannot remember the updates I did. Is there a way to fix this?



Attempt by &#39;System.Web.Mvc.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()&#39; to critical method &#39;System.Web.WebPages.Razor.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()&#39; failed

I have a controller which generates a string containing html markup. When it displays on views, it is displayed as a simple string containing all tags.

  I tried to use an Html helper to encode/decode to display it properly, but it is not working.
  

    string str= &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/Home/Profile/seeker&quot;&gt;seeker&lt;/a&gt; has applied to &lt;a href=&quot;/Jobs/Details/9&quot;&gt;Job&lt;/a&gt; floated by you.&lt;/br&gt;&quot;;
  
On my views, 

    @Html.Encode(str)


Display string as html in asp.net mvc view

I&#39;m getting this error as my project is not able to find the reference for `OWIN` startup class. I&#39;ve even installed all the OWIN reference packages through Nuget still getting the same issue. I&#39;m using `Visual Studio 2012` and `MVC4`. 

The following errors occurred while attempting to load the app.

&gt; - No assembly found containing an OwinStartupAttribute.
&gt; - No assembly found containing a Startup or [AssemblyName].Startup class. To disable OWIN startup discovery, add the appSetting
&gt; owin:AutomaticAppStartup with a value of &quot;false&quot; in your web.config.
&gt; To specify the OWIN startup Assembly, Class, or Method, add the
&gt; appSetting owin:AppStartup with the fully qualified startup class or
&gt; configuration method name in your web.config.

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Include all files in a folder in a single bundle

asp.net Mvc Problem Overview

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