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

I had this issue for six months and just realized that I needed to move my @model directives to the top of the pages. I previously had them inside code blocks.