No Intellisense in views updating from ASP.NET MVC 4 to MVC 5

Question

I just updated an mvc4 project (using vs2012) to mvc5. After having a lot of issues related to dependencies, I finally found this tutorial and straightened things up so that it builds without issues However, I have to intellisense for any of the views (.cshtml files): @using, @model, @html.*, @styles... nothing works. I must have broken the reference to the razor view engine not being able to parse them properly. I have double checked the web.configs and cannot see anything. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Went through the same agony, and was working without intellisense in views for about 3 weeks. Then I finally found it. It started working when I switched webpages setting to version 3 in web.config.

So in my web.config this was version 2.0.0.0, after i updated to 3.0.0.0 it started to work

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

Hopfully this was your issue to and will help becouse I feel your pain :)

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UPDATE: For others who are still looking for a fix for this issues in a post-MVC5 update, this helped me: In the ~/Views/web.config, updating from MVC 5.2.2.0 to 5.2.3.0 using Nuget did not update this line:

<host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.2.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> 

Updating 5.2.2.0 to 5.2.3.0 brought Intellisense back to life. You may have to close the view and re-open it to get the Intellisense to load.

Answer 2

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012 has now been released and should resolved the MVC5 intellisense issue with VS 2012.

This release brings a ton of great improvements, and include some fantastic enhancements to ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Scaffolding and Entity Framework to users of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web.

You can download the update: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/11/18/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-2013-1-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx