MVC Razor view Intellisense broken in VS 2013/2015/2017

Question

I have an existing project written in VS2010 which when loaded in VS2010 works perfectly.

When I load this same project in VS2013 the MVC Razor views contain lots of

Answer 1

A combination of the following helped to solve the problem for me:

• Creating a new MVC Project
• Comparing the versions in the views web.config files of the existing and new projects
• Fixing the versions accordingly (see below)
• Deleting all files in the bin folder
• Cleaning the solution
• and finally rebuilding the solution

  
    
      

      

    
  

  
    
    
      
        
        
        
        
        
      
    
  

  
    
    
  
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