>>>What using directives did you have ?
>>
>>We had
>>
>>using System.Web.Mvc;
>>using SysManager.Web.Models;
>
>It would have worked with:

using System;
>//.....
>public DateTime SomeDate {get;set;}

but fighting needless battles by having a System namespace.....

I do not know Viv... IMO the battle is lost as soon as you started using using (no echo intended), nothing to do with the name or you should be worried about any names as you do not know what other namespace will be added in the future that will collide with your's. I personally use FQN and I cannot tell you how many times I see samples that I cannot make them work because the sampler does not say which namespace they need and I need to start guessing (bah googling some more)