MVC 4 Beta side by side installation error

June 13, 2023 by Tarik

After installing MVC4 beta today, a few of my MVC 3 projects would not compile. (ModelClientValidationRule conflict) The fix was:

Edit:

ProjectName.csproj

Change

<Reference Include="System.Web.WebPages"/>

<Reference Include="System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL "/>