title: @model does not exist in current context MVC5
body: <p>I am facing the issue when I am trying to access model in the view as </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>@model does not exits in the current context</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have gone through many posts on the internet but could not resolve this issue.
  Below are the <code>Web.config</code> files for both inside the <code>View folder</code> and at the <strong>root of the project</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>Please help me to figure out the solution for this.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>This is the <code>web.config</code> file inside View folder  </p>
  
    
  
  <pre><code>&lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;configSections&gt;
      &lt;sectionGroup name="system.web.webPages.razor" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"&gt;
        &lt;section name="host" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" /&gt;
        &lt;section name="pages" type="System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorPagesSection, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" /&gt;
      &lt;/sectionGroup&gt;
    &lt;/configSections&gt;
  
    &lt;system.web.webPages.razor&gt;
      &lt;host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /&gt;
      &lt;pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage"&gt;
        &lt;namespaces&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Optimization"/&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="System.Web.Routing" /&gt;
          &lt;add namespace="KnockoutApplication" /&gt;
        &lt;/namespaces&gt;
      &lt;/pages&gt;
    &lt;/system.web.webPages.razor&gt;
  
    &lt;appSettings&gt;
      &lt;add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" /&gt;
    &lt;/appSettings&gt;
  
    &lt;system.webServer&gt;
      &lt;handlers&gt;
        &lt;remove name="BlockViewHandler"/&gt;
        &lt;add name="BlockViewHandler" path="*" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.HttpNotFoundHandler" /&gt;
      &lt;/handlers&gt;
    &lt;/system.webServer&gt;
  
    &lt;system.web&gt;
      &lt;compilation&gt;
        &lt;assemblies&gt;
          &lt;add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /&gt;
        &lt;/assemblies&gt;
      &lt;/compilation&gt;
    &lt;/system.web&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the web.config at the root of the project</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  
  &lt;!--
    For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
    https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
    --&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;appSettings&gt;
      &lt;add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" /&gt;
    &lt;/appSettings&gt;
    &lt;system.web&gt;
      &lt;compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.6.1" /&gt;
      &lt;httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1" /&gt;
    &lt;/system.web&gt;
    &lt;system.codedom&gt;
      &lt;compilers&gt;
        &lt;compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:default /nowarn:1659;1699;1701" /&gt;
        &lt;compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:default /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&amp;quot;Web\&amp;quot; /optionInfer+" /&gt;
      &lt;/compilers&gt;
    &lt;/system.codedom&gt;
    &lt;runtime&gt;
      &lt;assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-5.2.4.0" newVersion="5.2.4.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="WebGrease" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.5.2.14234" newVersion="1.5.2.14234" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
      &lt;/assemblyBinding&gt;
    &lt;/runtime&gt;
  
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>