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
file.
Now the problem is that I don't see Add Controller, Add View in Visual Studio when I want to create new Controllers/Views.
I read this answer for MVC 4 so I know I need to get the correct ProjectTypeGuid for MVC 5 in order to regain that functionality. I was wondering if anyone knows what that is so that I can add them to my .csproj
file?
Install the following items:
- Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
- 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.
Some information gathered from: http://forums.asp.net/t/1950055.aspx
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