asp.net mvc 2 method not found - asp.net

When I run my asp.net mvc 2 site (shared hosting) I get the following error:
Method not found: 'Void System.Web.Mvc.DataAnnotationsModelValidatorProvider.
set_AddImplicitRequiredAttributeForValueTypes(Boolean)'.
In the bin directory I have System.Web.Mvc.dll version 2.0.50217.0
On my local dev machine it runs fine.
Is it possible that if the hosting provider has a different mvc 2 version installed it would cause this error?

The official System.Web.Mvc is version 2.0.0.0. It seems that you are using some custom built version - 2.0.50217.0 that might be missing this method. Try deploying your application without the assembly in the bin folder.

I think a better way would be to copy the ASP.NET MVC 2 dll into your code directory(where ever you put your dependencies) and reference it from there. This way you can avoid this type of errors if the hosting machine doesn't have ASP.NET MVC 2 installed on it.

Thanks all for your help,
A referenced project had a different version in the bin folder (even though I cleaned the solution and set also the that project to reference the dll in the dependencies folder, it still copied the one from the bin folder).
After deleting that one and rebuilding, redeployed dlls and it ran.

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Unable to load DLLs when starting up IIS Express hosted web project (VS2015)

Backgroud:
I am in the process of migrating a console application to be part of our existing web API project. All development work is done on Visual Studiod 2015 (with IIS Express). The application uses few third party datasource api DLLs to grab data from that datasource. All these DLLs are managed by our internal nuget package sources.
Issue:
Now the console application runs fine and can load up the those DLLs. I copied across the logic into my web project and added the DLLs via nuget. Solution builds but got the following error when starting up the web project:
Could not load file or assembly 'ABC.DLL' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.
Where ABC.DLL is one of the third party DLLs.
I have done the following:
Confirm ABC.DLL is in the bin folder of my web project
Changed target build platform of my web project to be x86 and unchecked "Use 64 bit version of IIS Express for websites and project" setting in VS2015 (the third party dll is 32-bit)
Ran dumpbin.exe on ABC.DLL's dependency and got XYZ.dll,MSVCR120.dll,KERNEL32.dll,MSVCP120.dll,mscoree.dll
Regarding to the last step, those dlls were all missing in the bin folder (but the last 4 DLLs should be in system32 win directory so shouldn't matter?)
As for XYZ.dll, it is another third party library and is located on C:\Program Files (x86)\XYZ\ folder. I manually copied it across to the web project bin folder (in fact copied across all Dlls inside XYZ folder) and still get the same issue.
Questions
What am I missing here? The console app obviously can load ABC.DLL but the web project can't. Appreciate it if you can tell me what to check next.
The error message from start up web page is not very useful, is there a way to find out where the web project is trying to load the third party DLLs?
Thank you in advance!
Simply adding external DLLs to your Bin folder is not a great idea. Files can disappear from this folder for various reasons, such as your team members deleting a seemingly useless DLL, or through Visual Studio clearing it. Also, the output DLLs from referenced projects in your solution, would end up there, and are replaced every time you build your project.
What you should do for third-party DLLs, is create some "dependencies" folder in, or close to, your project, and stick the DLLs in there. Then you should right-click on the project, select Add Reference, browse to that new "dependencies" folder, and add a reference to the DLL that way. This is similar to the way NuGet works; it keeps DLLs in their respective folders inside the packages folder, and adds references to those DLLs.
I finally found the issue and thanks for all the help, I had to disable shadow copying in VS (mentioned in 64 bit managed assembly with unmanaged dependencies not loading in IIS / ASP.NET MVC 4).

How to install ASP.NET MVC 5 on a server?

I just updated my website from MVC 4 to MVC 5.
Now when I want to run it on my web server instead of my development machine it does not work.
It think it is because I need to install the MVC 5 libraries on the server but I can't find them.
I downloaded WebMatrix 3 hoping it would provide a way to install it but it only gives me the ability to install MVC 4.
What should I install to be able to run a ASP.NET MVC 5 application?
(without installing Visual Studio 2013)
EDIT:
I disabled custom errors and eror what I have:
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
EDIT 2:
I found out that the problem was due to one of my dependencies which was using the version 2.0.0.0 of razor.
When you deploy your app just make sure that all the assemblies are being deployed to your production environment in the bin folder. ASP.NET MVC is an xCopy deployment, so you don't have to install anything.
You might want to check that your Production environment has ASP.NET 4.0 and 4.5 registered.
MVC5 and future version of MVC doesn't require to installed on Windows Server. MVC5 app have everything as packages. You didn't need anything to install it.
What is required on server is copy of every library and assembly that you have used in your app. For fix this, Just make sure that everything on your bin folder is called same on server instead of server is looking for it's own GAC for assembly used in your app.
If you didn't found all the packages then you can install nuget packages on server by cmd.
The best is to do a Publish, right click on your project in Solution Explorer and select 'Publish'. Basically it will compile your solution and dump all the assemblies/artifacts to either your webserver, ftp or a local folder.
Make sure all your assembly references are being copied to the deployment directory. To do this you can change the <Reference...> tag in your .project file. Optionally, you can use visual studio's property setter to set the "Copy Local" property of each dll reference to "True".

ASP.Net build error - assembly not referenced

I am getting a build error when I attempt to build my asp.net application. The error is:
The type 'MediCare.Framework.Authentication.IUserAuthenticate' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'MediCare.Framework, Version=1.0.1.95, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1999fa3c42b9'.
I can see the class in the library which is in the references folder. How do I debug this issue?
My intention is to point the references folder to the library source code's bin directory (since the pdb file is lcoated there and any updates to the library will reflect in the application). However, when I point the references folder to the bin directory of the source code, I get the error message above.
Update The application was originally developed in VS 2008 and I am modifying it in 2010. I think I am confused about where the GAC assemblies would be, if I am using VS 2010 (2.0 framework location or 4.0 framework location) ? .NET 4.0 has a new GAC, why?
Update (06-26-2012)
The file in the GAC ("C:\Windows\assembly\") has been deleted. But this error is still occuring.
This could possibly be caused by version inconsistencies. Meaning, in order to fix this, I would do a complete clean build of your assemblies (and also an assemblies that might be nested inside an assembly). Just go out cold and do a new build on all assemblies. That should work.
Go into windows explorer, right click on the DLL file that your project is using that contains this class, and look at the version tab. Make sure version number matches what you see in the error message. My guess is that it won't.
If it does match, then check the GAC and make sure there isn't a different version of the DLL there that it could be picking up. To do that, go to windows explorer, and navigate to c:\windows\assembly. See if that assembly is in there with a different version number. If it is, you may need to delete it from the GAC (use caution though because other apps may depend on it being there).

MSBuild failing to build referenced projects when upgrading to VS2010

I have recently upgraded my .Net 3.5 solution containing some C# code projects and a ASP.net web site project to VS2010 (from VS2008). It is building and running fine inside VS, but I get some problems when trying to build it on my server with MSBuild 4.0 via TeamCity. It seems like the projects that are referenced from the web site are not built. This was all working fine before I upgraded to VS2010, MSbuild 4.0 and Windows SDK 7.1.
Inside the msbuild script that I use to build from teamcity I have defined project references for the web site like this:
<ProjectReference Include="..\src\trunk\DataAccess\DataAccess.csproj">
<Project>{C43242F4-7286-4BEC-9A27-001D6FC14860}</Project>
<Name>DataAccess</Name>
</ProjectReference>
When I try to run the build script I get an error message saying that it could not find the dll file when trying to copy it from the bin folder of the referenced project into the bin folder of the web site. This is happening because the referenced projects are in fact never built at all (No bin folder exists in the project dir).
Does anyone have a clue what may cause this? I am not very experienced with MSbuild, so I may have overlooked some important stuff. Is it not so that MSbuild will automatically try to build the referenced projects if no project output is existing?
Will be thankful for any help!
I would need some more info to guide you on this, but off the top of my head try adding
/toolsversion:3.5
to your msbuild call.
I found another post on this website describing your exact same problem. I also ran into this same problem too.
This blog on the MSDN Website describes the problem and the work-around. Basically it's a limitation of solution files which are not in an MSBuild format, but just a fancy text file. And the real thing is, that the dependencies need to be specified in the project files them selves not the solution file. ahhh... just read the link it explains it a hundred times better than my answer here.

Error message about existing

I'm using VS 2010 with ASP.net MVC 2.
I recieved a program that was completed and when I was debugging the program I recieve an error message.
"Error 4 The type 'System.Web.Routing.RouteTable' exists in both 'C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.0\System.Web.dll' and 'C:\Documents and Settings\Vincent\Desktop\3\Manning.ASP.NET.MVC.2.in.Action.Jun.2010\aspnetmvc2inaction_code\lib\AspNetMvc\System.Web.Routing.dll' C:\Documents and Settings\Vincent\Desktop\3\Manning.ASP.NET.MVC.2.in.Action.Jun.2010\aspnetmvc2inaction_code\src\Chapter01\GuestBook\Global.asax.cs"
and
"Error 1 The type 'System.Web.Routing.RequestContext' exists in both 'c:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.0\System.Web.dll' and 'c:\Documents and Settings\Vincent\Desktop\3\Manning.ASP.NET.MVC.2.in.Action.Jun.2010\aspnetmvc2inaction_code\lib\AspNetMvc\System.Web.Routing.dll' C:\Documents and Settings\Vincent\Desktop\3\Manning.ASP.NET.MVC.2.in.Action.Jun.2010\aspnetmvc2inaction_code\src\Chapter01\GuestBook\Controllers\AccountController.cs".
The program was converted into VS 2010 format.
What should I do?
// Fullmetalboy
When you convert a project from .Net 2.0/3.5 to 4.0 in VS2010 the web projects will prompt you to upgrade the framework to 4.0 but you will need to manually go into the project properties and upgrade class library projects and certain other projects manually in the project properties. So this type of error is probably caused by your web project referencing the 4.0 version of System.Web.Routing but a class library in your solution is still referencing the 3.5 version.
One of the projects in your solution is referencing a single type (RouteTable/RequestContext) in two different places. I always start with cleaning and rebuilding the solution, but if that doesn't fix it, you're going to have to check the project references and resolve it that way. If all else fails, try to make a new project from scratch and manually add the references and projects you need and then copy and paste your old code.
Someone copied the ASP.NET MVC source code into the "lib" folder of your application and either included that folder in the project (so it is getting built when you build your project) or he/she built it before you got it and referenced it from within the project. Now it is in conflict with the ASP.NET libraries that exist in default installation folder on the system 'c:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.0\System.Web.dll'.
Since you're using the .NET 4.0 Framework, the library System.Web.Routing is ambiguous. Make sure you have referenced System.Web.dll (version 4.0) and remove the reference to System.Web.Routing.dll

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