YAF.NET integration on MVC website

I wish to integrate YAF.NET (http://yafnet.codeplex.com/) into an existing web site written years ago in MVC 2.0. I wish to have it as a standalone forum, not integrated into my existing pages.

I create a directory and copied all the necessaries files, bin, .config and so on but I get this error:

"Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

I don't understand why he is trying to load mvc dll .. anyone could help me with this stuff?

Solution

Web.config files inherit from their parents, so if your root website is setup for MVC your application web.configs will inherit those settings.

In this case the root web.config likely added a couple of assembly references which you will need to strip out. The easy way is to add a <clear /> rule to the assembly section (in system.web):

<compilation>
  <assemblies>
    <clear />
    <!-- add new assembly references here -->
  </assemblies>
</compilation>

The alternative is to use remove rules which alllow you to remove specific references.

 <compilation>
  <assemblies>
    <remove assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
  </assemblies>
 </compilation>