title: MVC 4 Razor and Jquery UI datepicker() "Object doesn't support property or method"
body: <p>I've probably just spent the last two hours trying to figure this out. </p>
  
  <p>The specific error that is thrown with my MVC application is this:
  "0x800a01b6 - JavaScript runtime error: Object doesn't support property or method 'datepicker'"</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code:</p>
  
  <p><strong>_Layout.cshtml:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
  
  ...
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-2.0.3.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-ui-1.10.3.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>the view .cshtml</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>@{
      ...
      Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
  }
  
  ...
  &lt;div&gt;
      Change Time Span:
      &lt;br /&gt;
      From:
      &lt;input type="text" id="test" /&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="loading" id="container"&gt;@Model.LoadingMessage&lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      $(document).ready(function () {
  
          $('#test').datepicker();
      });
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've looked at several potential "duplicate" questions with no success. Here are some of the questions I've looked at:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10468102/mvc3-razor-view-error-microsoft-jscript-runtime-error-object-doesnt-support-pr">MVC3 razor view error Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn&#39;t support property or method &#39;datepicker&#39;`</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6105194/jquery-giving-error-object-doesnt-support-this-property-or-method-on-method-d">jQuery giving error &quot;Object doesn&#39;t support this property or method&quot; on method datepicker</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16148765/using-datepicker-in-mvc-4-0-to-persist-a-date-value-in-db-throwing-object-does">Using datepicker in MVC 4.0 to persist a date value in db, throwing &quot;object doesn&#39;t support this property or method&quot;</a></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I believe I am referencing all that I need from jquery to accomplish my goal.</li>
  <li>The  element is readable from Jquery, it can see its value were I to set it, so I don't think my selector is the problem. </li>
  <li>Both Jquery Packages were installed via NuGet (the latest Jquery release and the Jquery UI Combined Library)</li>
  <li>I've rebuilt / cleaned the Visual Studio solution (in desperation), shut down the local IIS host and reset it...</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>What am I missing? Intellisense even detects that the method exists and is giving me suggestions for what to place in for parameters. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Is there something simple I've missed?</strong></p>