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
In case the links don’t work, check the original articles where I’ve found all the necessary information (thanks to them):
- Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012
- ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012
After installing these 2 components, you’ll finally be able to work on MVC5, just as you were used with MVC 4. Check these screenshots:
When you right click on “Controllers” and select “Add” you can now select “Controller…”
When you right click on your Views folder and then select “Add” you can now select “View…” as well as new entries (see MVC 5 View options at the bottom)
When you add a View, you can select a Model class and a Data context class, scaffolding will work also with Entity Framework 6
Enjoy!