"The specified view is invalid" in call to LimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart in SharePoint 2010

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Published on 2010-05-04T19:34:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 19:38 UTC
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This code used to work in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 in FeatureReceiver.FeatureActivated:

using (SPLimitedWebPartManager limitedWebPartManager = Site.GetLimitedWebPartManager("default.aspx", PersonalizationScope.Shared)) {
    ListViewWebPart listViewWebPart = new ListViewWebPart {
        Title = title,
        ListName = list.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper(),
        ViewGuid = view.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper()
    };
    limitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart(listViewWebPart, zone, position);
}

I'm trying to convert to SharePoint 2010 and it now fails with:

System.ArgumentException: The specified view is invalid.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewCollection.get_Item(Guid guid)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart.EnsureListAndView(Boolean requireFullBlownViewSchema)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart.get_AppropriateBaseViewId()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(SPSupersetWebPart superset, Boolean throwIfLocked)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPLimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(WebPart webPart, String zoneId, Int32 zoneIndex, Boolean throwIfLocked)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPLimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart(WebPart webPart, String zoneId, Int32 zoneIndex)

Interestingly enough when I run it from a unit test it works, it only fails in FeatureActivated. When I debug with Reflector it is failing on this line:

this.view = this.list.LightweightViews[new Guid(this.ViewGuid)];

list.LightweightViews only returns one view, the default view, even though list.Views returns all of them. I have no idea what LightweightViews is supposed to mean and I'm running out of ideas. Anyone else got any?

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