Add MVC 4 support to VS2017 RC

[sayedihashimi]

MVC 4 doesn't work with VS2017 RC.

[sayedihashimi]

Note: support is coming in the next release.

[brunoamancio]

This issue should be closed, right?

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes Issues Fixed in this Release

• Add ASP.NET MVC 4 support to Visual Studio 2017.

[tupunco]

MVC 4 doesn't work with Win10-64/Visual Studio Community 2017 15.1(26403.7).

[barrytang]

/cc @joeloff

@tupunco, when you said MVC4 doesn't work, do you mean you can't create a project or you weren't able to open a MVC4 project? Also, did you check the MVC4 checkbox under the ASP.NET and Web workload in the VS installer screen?

[joeloff]

@tupunco could you confirm whether you tried to open an MVC 4 project or tried to create a new project?We only support opening existing MVC 4 projects in VS 2017.

[joeloff]

Since we haven't heard back and don't have enough information to proceed we're closing this issue for now. If you run into this again, please open an issue on the Developer Community site with the details.

[tupunco]

@joeloff Sorry, forget this "issues" reply. I mean can not open the existing MVC4 project, but recently an VS2017 update , and it worked up. nice.

[joeloff]

Thanks, glad to hear it's working for you @tupunco

[marvinglennlacuna]

That still doesn't fix the main problem. The projects are not loading up.

[EasyAsABC123]

Seems to still be broken for msbuild (Visual Studio Build Tools 2017)

[joeloff]

@EasyAsABC123 what are the errors you're seeing?

[EasyAsABC123]

@joeloff the error message looks like this:

"D:\<insert path>\BuildScript\AllProjects.proj" (default target) (1)
->
"D:\<insert path>\Mobile\BUILD.proj" (default target) (649) ->
"D:\<insert path>\Mobile\<solution>.sln" (default target) (6
50) ->
"D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj" (default target) (653) ->
"D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj" (default target) (660:4) ->
(CoreCompile target) ->  
<path to file>\KeywordStatServiceV1.cs(4,18): error CS0234: The type ornamespace name 'Http' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj]
<path to file>\MobileMessageStatisticsServiceV1.cs(4,18): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Http' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj]
<path to file>\SmsGetMessageByIdServiceV1.cs(4,18): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Http' does not exist inthe namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj]
<path to file>\SmsGetMobileMessageStatisticsGraphServiceV1.cs(11,18): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Http' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj]
<path to file>\SmsGetMobileMessageStatisticsServiceV1.cs(4,18): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Http' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\<insert path>\Mobile\Messaging\<project>.csproj]

But really the error is that the ASP.NET MVC 4 isn't installed...i resolved this by installing from here but i believe that should be an install option.

[joeloff]

That's the old runtime that used to GAC the MVC 4 assemblies. Building in Visual Studio 2017 should work as long as you're set up to do package restores for the runtime packages into your project. Is restore running at all for the solution from the commandline?

[EasyAsABC123]

@joeloff indeed it is, but this project is old and isn't using nuget for these packages it is referencing the Program Files (x86) location, if this is a unique case no worries i'll resolve it for me only...just wanted to point it out.

[joeloff]

@EasyAsABC123 yes the older projects used to rely on the Assemblies folder we had for the MVC 4 runtime, but package restore is definitely the preferred way to do this in VS2017

[EasyAsABC123]

@joeloff if all i need is:

System.Net
System.Net.Http
System.Web
System.Web.Http

Which nuget package would be best for minimal impact? Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core?

[joeloff]

Looks like that should be sufficient. I ran nuget install Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core -Version 4.0.30506 -OutputDirectory wao and that brings in System.Net.Http and System.Web.Http (System.Net and System.Web should get picked up from the .NET framework install itself I think)

[EasyAsABC123]

you are correct @joeloff just not the .Http variants

[aniruddha-dev]

Hi, is this issue fixed because i am not able to create new project in vs 2017 running on 64 bit windows 10

[joeloff]

@iamaniruddha We do not support new projects for MVC 4. You can open existing projects and you will be able to do things like add controllers and views. VS 2013 was the last version that supported creating new MVC 4 projects.

[VQuery]

Hi @joeloff

Regarding this comment, "recently an VS2017 update , and it worked up."

Which starting version of VS2017 supports MVC4 ?