Visual Studio 2015 Broken Razor Intellisense

Question

After installing and then repairing my VS2015 instance I still cannot get intellisense (server side) to work in my MVC views. I get alerted by message promp

Answer 1

FYI: My VS 2015 PRO installation has full install with all 3-rd parties.

I tried all possible solution that here in article, it didn't help me. What Craig Goldensoph wrote helped me partially to find solution for me.

So first I did: Uncheck all checkboxes for Text Editor-> All Languages->General Statement completion:

After Click OK- Reopen Option Dialog again: And check all for the same section:

and apply settings again. You have to Restart your Visual studio. After restart it will take a time to load , but after that it worked for me.

Answer 2

Sometimes, the VS IDE does not show IntelliSense at all.

I just close the solution, close VS, then reopen it, and the problem is solved.

Answer 3

I was only able to fix this by updating the webpages version, which I mentioned in another similar question:

Razor intellisense not working in VS 2015

Answer 4

I've posted this answer on another SO question, just because I want to prevent people wasting the time I've just wasted. My problem was that I'd added files to a project, but not included them. So I chosen to show all files:

then chose to include folders:

The problem only shows up when you open an MVC website as a project, and not when you open it as a website directly.

Answer 5

If none of the other options work, there is a workaround. After entering the '.' operator, press the "Ctrl + Space" keys which should force the IntelliSense dialog to appear.

I was having this issue when working with .cshtml MVC razor files.