Hi Craig, I took the easy route and created a new project and added my old project items manually and all is fine now (phew) I printed out my old Web.configs and compared them to the ones that are auto generated for a new project and they were hugely different ( Version numbers mainly ) I still have an issue with one view which receives a model of a type I use in other views

@model IEnumerable Employee ( angle brackets removed to pacify this site )

without issue but it wont play ball , if I use a @Html.DisplayFor() for instance intellisense gives me a list of the properties of IEnumerable instead of my type which is strange - any ideas ?