Visual Studio 2013 produces garbled/corrupted/wrong-encoded html

Question

I have a MVC4 Web project with Razor, which works fine in VS2012. In VS2013, after clean-rebuild, the same web project produce html with encoding issues. it

Answer 1

Browser Link can also be disabled via web.config, as follows:

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="vs:EnableBrowserLink" value="false" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

Answer 2

Could be the Browser Link feature in VS 2013. Look for this in your toolbar:

Uncheck Enable Browser Link and reload the web page (rebuild shouldn't be necessary).

I figured this out noticing a bunch of requests like http://localhost:64667/613318d74fb54ab5bed269c36eb39fde/arterySignalR/connect... in Fiddler that I had never seen before. Also, using the Raw tab of the inspector in Fiddler showed lots of random unprintable bytes being injected into the HTML of my web pages.