I am creating a brand new projet with Visual Studio 2013, I choose Asp.Net MVC and the framework 4.5.1 The project is created, then, I do nothing else than F5 to start the d
I faced the same problem because my MVC project was configured for .Net 4.5 but I was using .Net 4.0 as my application pool in IIS. Switched it to .Net 4.5 application pool and the problem was fixed. I hope this helps some one else!