After installing and then repairing my VS2015 instance I still cannot get intellisense (server side) to work in my MVC views. I get alerted by message promp
I met the same problem, but the cause was different from the other answers.
An update of Visual Studio (I suspect TypeScript update on September 2015) uninstalled the Web Developer Tools component of Visual Studio 2015. That causes IntelliSense not to work.
I installed Web Developer Tools in the installer options again AND deleted ComponentModelCache after the installation. That worked for me.