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using System.Configuration;
using System.Web.Configuration;
using Microsoft.WebPages.Compilation;

namespace Infrastructure.Configuration
{
    public static class PreApplicationStartCode
    {
       public static void ImportNamespace()
       {
           var pagesSection = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.web/pages") as PagesSection;

           if (pagesSection == null)
               return;

           foreach (NamespaceInfo namespaceToImport in pagesSection.Namespaces)
           {
               CodeGeneratorSettings.AddGlobalImport(namespaceToImport.Namespace);
           }  
       }
    }
}

How to use the code:

Add the following code into the assembly containing the above code:

[assembly: PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(PreApplicationStartCode), "ImportNamespace")]

It will make sure ASP.NET 4.0 will make a call to the ImportNamesapce method long before Application_Start is called, read more about it here.

Make sure your ASP.NET MVC project adds a reference to the project where the above code is added to.

Now you can do use the pages/namespace section in web.config to globally import namespaces into the views. Example of the section in web.config:

<system.web>
    <pages>
      <namespaces>
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
        <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
        <add namespace="Infrastructure.WebHelpers"/>
      </namespaces>
    </pages>
</system.web>

Note: The above solution will add Web Form namespaces too because it will take the namespaces added to the global configuration files.

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