Can't Add View from Controller in VS 2015 : “There was an error running the selected code generator”

Question

I\'m following a video tutorial where I\'m required to create an empty ASP.NET Web Application with MVC, using Visual Studio 2015, bei

Answer 1

A simple VS restart worked for me. I just closed VS and restarted.

Answer 2

Try clearing the ComponentModelCache, the cache will rebuild next time VS is launched.

1. Close Visual Studio
2. Delete everything in this folder C:\Users\ [your users name] \AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
3. Restart Visual Studio

14.0 is for visual studio 2015. This will work for other versions also.

Answer 3

Deleting the .vs folder inside the solution directory worked for me.

Answer 4

I know this is a really old thread, but I came across it whilst working on my issue. Mine was caused because I had renamed one of my Model classes. Even though the app built and ran fine, when I tried to add a new controller I got the same error. For me, I just deleted the class I had renamed, added it back in and all was fine.

Answer 5

In ASP.NET Core check if you have the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools nuget package and it corresponds to your project version.

Answer 6

Follow these steps to add a view in a different way than the typical way:

• 1) Open Visual studio.
• 2) Create/open your project.
• 3) Go to Solution Explorer.
• 4) Right click on the target folder.
• 5) From the list, choose Add.
• 6) From the child list, choose MVC View Page (Razor) or MVC View Page with layout (Razor).
• 7) If you select the second choice from the previous step, you should choose a layout page for your view from the pop up window.
• 8) That's it!

If you cannot open the view that you are created, simply right click on the view file, choose Open with, and select HTML (web forms) editor then okay.