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.