The name 'SharePointContextProvider' does not exist in the current context

Question

I have a Basic Provider Hosted App (which is an on premise hosted app). It has been integrated with SP2013 and hello world Page is working fine. But when I wanted to develop the actual part, I have to use SharePointContextProvider, but the compiler is throwing an error.

The name 'SharePointContextProvider' does not exist in the current context.

Here is my actual code.

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        User spUser = null;

        var spContext = SharePointContextProvider.Current.GetSharePointContext(HttpContext);

        using (var clientContext = spContext.CreateUserClientContextForSPHost())
        {
            if (clientContext != null)
            {
                spUser = clientContext.Web.CurrentUser;

                clientContext.Load(spUser, user => user.Title);

                clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

                ViewBag.UserName = spUser.Title;
            }
        }

        return View();
    }

In View I want to use the User Name. I am using VS 2012 and SP 2013.

Answer 1

Has your method the following attributes? [SharePointContextFilter]

But more important. Are in your MVC application included the SharePoint context file? SharePointContext.cs and TokenHelper.cs

You can find them here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/

Answer 2

I resolved this problem by installing Window Foundation Identity.

You can download this from here and download only x64 msu.