I just updated an mvc4 project (using vs2012) to mvc5. After having a lot of issues related to dependencies, I finally found this tutorial and straightened things up so that it
While the above answers may resolve most of these problems, my problem was apparently caused by a VS Extension I had installed. Please see Answer provided by Emran Hussain here: Visual Studio 2013 IntelliSense stops working for ASP.NET MVC5 Controllers
His answer was spot on for me, even though my problem was with intellisense on my Razor Views only. I disabled the extension, and restarted VS2013 and intellisense is working again with no problems. Like Emran, I'm hesitant to blame the maker of the extension (AzureXplorer by ClumsyLeaf software), because I think this may be a VS issue?