Visual Studio 2015 jQuery intellisense not working

Question

So I created a Visual Studio 2015 empty ASP.net Core application and tried to add jQuery using bower, but it isn\'t picking up the intellisense for jQuery... It is showing a

Answer 1

I'm using VS 2015 and MVC 5 and was having this issue. I tried all the above and nothing worked.

I then when into

Tool -> Options -> JavaScript -> Intellisense -> References

and added the

jquery-1.9.1.intellisense.js

file. Worth mentioning I copied this file from my local project to the C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Javascript\References folder

I restarted VS and went back into my view and still didn't have intellisense for jQuery.

Then in my view above my script section I changed my jquery reference from the .min copy to the full and the intellisense started to work right away