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
Went through the same agony, and was working without intellisense in views for about 3 weeks. Then I finally found it. It started working when I switched webpages setting to version 3 in web.config.
So in my web.config this was version 2.0.0.0, after i updated to 3.0.0.0 it started to work
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Hopfully this was your issue to and will help becouse I feel your pain :)
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UPDATE: For others who are still looking for a fix for this issues in a post-MVC5 update, this helped me: In the ~/Views/web.config
, updating from MVC 5.2.2.0 to 5.2.3.0 using Nuget did not update this line:
Updating 5.2.2.0
to 5.2.3.0
brought Intellisense back to life. You may have to close the view and re-open it to get the Intellisense to load.