Attempting to place an ASP.NET control in an MVC page causes exception

Question

I've created a asp:TreeView control in a ASP.NET MVC Partial View. The view renders fine without the control. With the control I get the follow exception:

Control 'MainContent_TreeView1' of type 'TreeView' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server

Since this is not a WebForms project, I don't see why I'd need a form. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Basically, I don't believe you can add webforms controls to MVC pages.

You need to create a separate aspx page (a webforms page inside your MVC project) to use server controls.

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