Garbage tags showing up in MVC views after installing VS 2013 + .Net 4.5.1

Question

In my ASP.Net MVC 4 application, there are several places where we are either manually rendering a view to a string or intercepting some part of the rendering pipeline. For exam

Answer 1

Apparently I am not the only person having this problem. Found the answer here:

Page uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression when debugging ASP.NET MVC app with Visual Studio 2013 Preview

It looks like you need to disable the browser-link option in visual studio. Hopefully there is a more permanent fix possible in the future because browser-link looks cool.

Answer 2

We are looking at fixing this, but for now you should just disable Browser Link either through the toolbar button dropdown or by setting debug="false" in web.config.