ASP.Net MVC view unable to see HtmlHelper extension method

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Published on 2010-03-29T18:06:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 18:13 UTC
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Hi everyone,

We're going through an ASP.Net MVC book and are having trouble with using an extenstion method within our view. The Extension method looks like this:

using System;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace MvcBookApplication
{
  public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
  {
    public static string JQueryGenerator(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string formName, object model);
  }
}

We use the extension method in our view like this:

    <%=Html.JQueryGenerator("createmessage", ViewData.Model)%>

The problem is, that line of code says JQueryGenerator isn't a recognized method of HtmlHelper. I believe we've got the correct references set in the web project, but are there other things we can check? There's no using statement for views, is there?

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