Reinstall Microsoft Visual Studio Asp.net MVC 5 Scaffolding extension

Question

I hade a problem with scaffolding in Asp.Net MVC 5 and Visual studio 2013 I tried to reinstall the extension "Microsoft Visual Studio Asp.net MVC 5 Scaffolding" by first uninstalled it. But I cant find any way to install it again.

I tried to repair visual studio. - no luck I tried to uninstall visual studio and install visual studio, but the extension is still missing

Do I have to reinstall the PC or is there a quick fix?

Answer 1

I wanted to add to Chrille's answer.

The PendingDeletes can be found in

HKEY_USERS\<SID>\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0Exp\ExtensionManager

And

 HKEY_USERS\<SID>\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ExtensionManager

And I found the AppData in my local and Roaming app data.

Answer 2

Here's what I did. It was a bit more involved than what everyone else was reporting. I tried doing a repair in the Control Panel, it ran for several hours and then failed. Perhaps my problems were that I installed VS2013 sp1 and then upgraded it to SP4 before I removed "Microsoft Visual Studio Asp.net MVC 5 Scaffolding."

I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Premium with Update 4 and then did a repair using that file, but the extension was still missing. I then found the AspNetWebFrameworksTools_VS12_ENU.msi in the en_visual_studio_premium_2013_with_update_4_x86_dvd_5935086.iso and did an uninstall and a reinstall, but the extension was still missing.

I extracted the packages\WPT\AspNetWebFrameworksTools_VS12_ENU.msi file from my .iso file using msiexec. In order to get the .msi file to extract successfully, I also had to place the *.cab files from \packages\WPT into the same folder I was extracting the .msi from. Once I'd extracted my msi file, I went into it's folder structure and found the Scaffolding stuff. It was in Dest\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Stack 5\VS_12_COMMON7_IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web\Mvc\Scaffolding folder.

Once I had that, I still didn't have a .vsix file that I could install into Visual Studio. So what I did was create my own .vsix file. I did a little research on the web and created a file called [Content_Types].xml, it's literally called that. I renamed the file extension on several .vsix files that I had downloaded on my system to .zip and looked inside them to see what the contents of my [Content_Types].xml should look like, here's what I came up with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types">
  <Default Extension="dll" ContentType="application/octet-stream" />
  <Default Extension="pkgdef" ContentType="text/plain" />
  <Default Extension="vsixmanifest" ContentType="text/xml" />
  <Default Extension="txt" ContentType="text/plain" />
</Types>

I then zipped up [Content_Types].xml, extension.vsixmanifest, and Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.Mvc.5.0.dll to a zip file called Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.Mvc.5.0.zip. I then renamed that .zip file to Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.Mvc.5.0.vsix. I then was able to install the extension using this .vsix file that I created.