How do I get the “Add Controller” and “Add View” menu options in my ASP.NET MVC 5 project?

Question

I upgraded my solution from MVC 4 to MVC 5 in Visual Studio 2012 using this tutorial. In the last step I removed the ProjectTypeGuid for MVC 4 from my .csproj f

Answer 1

Install the following items:

1. Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
2. Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012 (Web Platform Installer | Direct Download)

Then follow this tutorial to upgrade your MVC 4 project to MVC 5.

Finally make sure your project has the following ProjectTypeGuids:

<ProjectTypeGuids>
    {349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}
</ProjectTypeGuids>

In MVC5 the option you're looking for might be hidden under the Add Scaffold menu option. See the release blog post for more information on MVC5 scaffolding.

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Some information gathered from: http://forums.asp.net/t/1950055.aspx

Answer 2

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