Using Visual Studio Enterprise 16.0.0.
Created MVC Project 4.6.1
Run Telerik utility to "Convert to Telerik Web Application" from Project context menu. On a clean project just created from the VS Template.
Since previous step errors out and doesn't complete an attempt was made to use the Telerik Upgrade Wizard.
This produced the following error:
An error occurred while running the wizard.
Error executing custom action Telerik.VSX.Actions.ShowConversionLogAction: Could not instantiate a TextTransformation object from the compiled assembly. The following Exception was thrown:
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating3e7341780e3e4a17bdabe17b447cd796.GeneratedTextTransformation' to type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.TextTransformation'.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplating.TransformationRunner.CreateTextTransformation(String fullClassName, ITextTemplatingEngineHost host, Assembly assembly, ITextTemplatingSession userSession)
Manually edited the ../Views/Web.config adding Kendo.MVC.UI namespace reference seems to have fixed the project where the VS Extension failed.
Added: <add namespace="Kendo.Mvc.UI" />
To:
<system.web.webPages.razor>
<host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Optimization"/>
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="ASOVTC.Internal.Web" />
<add namespace="Kendo.Mvc.UI" />
</namespaces>
</pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>
Also added to the application level Web.config
<system.web>