The type arguments cannot be inferred from the usage. Try specifying the type arguments explicitly

I know this question already has an accepted answer, but for me, a .NET beginner, there was a simple solution to what I was doing wrong and I thought I’d share.

I had been doing this:

@Html.HiddenFor(Model.Foo.Bar.ID)

What worked for me was changing to this:

@Html.HiddenFor(m => m.Foo.Bar.ID)

(where “m” is an arbitrary string to represent the model object)