Encountered an unexpected error when attempting to resolve tag helper directive '@addTagHelper'

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Community edition, and I've created an ASP.NET MVC 5 project.

When I open a view (Index of Home or any other), it shows first three lines of the page underlined with red as a syntax issue. Here is the error:

Encountered an unexpected error when attempting to resolve tag helper directive '@addTagHelper' with value 'Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Razor.TagHelpers.UrlResolutionTagHelper, Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Razor'. Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

The screenshot:

When I build the project, it build successfully. When I run it, it shows a lot of errors, but it runs the application.

The type or namespace name 'Mvc' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.AspNet' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

and

'_Page_views_home_index_cshtml.ExecuteAsync()': no suitable method found to override

How can I get rid of this?

Answer 1

Here's how I fixed the issue:

First, reset the Visual Studio Component Cache by closing Visual Studio and deleting this folder:

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache

And finally, check the web.config files and change:

<appSettings>
    <add key="webpages:Version" value="2.0.0.0" />
    ...
</appSettings>

to

<appSettings>
    <add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" />
    ...
</appSettings>

Answer 2

I had the same problem, but the above didn't work. I also deleted all 4 files in the Component cache which didn't work. I noticed that the line below <appSettings> was set to false. I changed it to true and the red squigs were gone.

<add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" />
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />