How do I get the “Add Controller” and “Add View” menu options in my ASP.NET MVC 5 project?

Question

I upgraded my solution from MVC 4 to MVC 5 in Visual Studio 2012 using this tutorial. In the last step I removed the ProjectTypeGuid for MVC 4 from my .csproj f

Answer 1

If you are still using Visual Studio 2012 and are looking for a way to have intellisense for your views made for razor 3, if you want to add a new view and a new controller with the proper menu entries in visual studio you probably noticed that with things don’t work as they should.

Simply install the following 2 components:

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012 (link to direct download) Entity Framework 6 Tools for Visual Studio 2012