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I was trying to create a Razor declarative helper in my App_Code folder for an MVC 3 RTM project. The problem I ran into was that the MVC HtmlHelper extensions, like ActionLink, aren't available. This is because the compiled helpers derive from System.Web.WebPages.HelperPage , and though it exposes an Html property, its of type System.Web.WebPages.HtmlHelper rather than System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper . An example of the kind of error I was getting is: 'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' does not contain a definition for 'ActionLink' and no extension method 'ActionLink' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) My only solution has been to create my own HelperPage and override the Html property: using System.Web.WebPages; public class HelperPage : System.Web.WebPages.HelperPage { // Workaround - exposes the MVC HtmlHelper instead of the normal helper public static new HtmlHelper Html { get { return ((System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage) WebPageContext.Current.Page).Html; } } } I then have to write the following at the top of every helper: @inherits FunnelWeb.Web.App_Code.HelperPage @using System.Web.Mvc @using System.Web.Mvc.Html @helper DoSomething() { @Html.ActionLink("Index", "Home") } Is it meant to be this hard in MVC 3, or am I doing something wrong?

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