The type ‘System.Object’ is defined in an assembly that is not reference (MVC + PCL issue) The other day I was working in Visual Studio 2013 on a prototype ASP.NET MVC 5 Project and ran into an unexpected, I found the solution and wanted to share it with the community, so here are the details. Problem with Razor View & PCL: The issue was that after I would add a reference to a Portable Class Libra