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Question

When trying to add a Controller in an ASP.NET Core project using Visual Studio 15 Enterprise with Update 3, I get the error below:

\"The was an error running

Answer 1

For VS 2015, in project.json file -

under dependencies add -

"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
  "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
  "imports": [
    "portable-net45+win8"
  ]
},
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc": "1.0.0-preview2-final"

then under tools add-

"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
  "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
  "imports": [
    "portable-net45+win8"
  ]
}