Visual Studio 2013 IntelliSense stops working for ASP.NET MVC5 Controllers

visual-studio-2013 intellisense asp.net-mvc-5
Emran Hussain picture Emran Hussain · Jan 31, 2014 · Viewed 99.4k times · Source

I am facing a weird problem in my Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET MVC 5 project. All of a sudden, the IntelliSense in the Controller classes of the MVC 5 project are not working at all.

I have other class library projects in my solution and IntelliSense is working in those class library project files, but the problem is only within the MVC project. Usually these kinds of problems are solved by restarting Visual Studio: not only did I restart Visual Studio, but I also restarted my computer, and the IntelliSense problem is not getting fixed at all.

Are there any other steps that can get me IntelliSense back?

Answer

Rush Frisby picture Rush Frisby · Jun 1, 2014

Close Visual Studio. Delete the <ProjectName>.v12.suo file. Reopen solution.

Related questions

Why does intellisense and code suggestion stop working when Visual Studio is open?

I have been having issues with Intellisense in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. I will be working in a project, editing code and whatnot (after a period of time, anywhere from 5 minutes to over an hour) and all of a sudden, no …

Read More
VS2013 intellisense code completion

First I thought it was a problem of VS2013 RC/beta but now I installed VS2013 RTM and still have the same problem: code completion does only open after I execute it manually by strg+space. How can I turn …

Read More
VS2013 Intellisense constantly stops working

I have Visual Studio 2013 with no plugins or anything fancy. Whenever I'm coding, every so often (maybe once every half hour) intellisense randomly stops completing my sentences or popping up at all when I press Ctrl+Space. I have tried …

Read More