Application object isn't visible in the cshtml page

Folks,

I'm clearly missing something, which is not surprising, because I'm new to ASP.NET.

I'm making a session counter, which is incremented in the Session_Start() event and decremented in Session_End(). (This is just an exercise. I found it here.)

I have created a Global.asax file and added the event handlers. So far so good.
Then I wanted to access the Application object in a .cshtml file, but the Application object is not available. It's underlined with a red squiggly line.

What could I be missing?

Any suggestion, insight or reference is really appreciated!

Cheers,
- Nick

Well you appear to have opened an MVC project, and to be honest if you are new to ASP.Net you might be better off starting with a standard ASP Web Forms project.

If i where you i would open a new project and when selecting project type select ASP Web Forms,

MVC is a particular design pattern (for which ASP.Net has its own project type) BUT the example you are following is just expecting a standard Web Forms project.

My little test project is WebPages rather than MVC. However, I want to get some familiarity with MVC soon.

I have already looked into WebForms. It may be easier to learn, but it doesn't look to me that WebForms is the future. From what I gather, majority of new developments are MVC.

I'm new to ASP.NET, but I'm not new to programming. I'm not afraid of learning intricate concepts. I'm working on a hobby project at my own pace.