Visual Studio 2013 IntelliSense MVC5剃须刀无法正常工作

Question

I'm new to MVC5 and whilst writing a Layout, I am wanting to include a Partial View into it.

I can do that by using the syntax like

@{ Html.RenderPartial("{some view name that is a partial layout}"); }

This works when I run the application, so the question isn't about getting this to run.

My issue is when I am writing the code for Html. I am not getting the IntelliSense showing correctly for the Html object.

I am getting entries such as AttributeEncode, CheckBox, DropDownList, Encode, Equals etc, but I can't see RenderPartial in this list which is annoying.

Another thing I noticed is that the ViewBag and ViewData are not coming up in the IntelliSense when I am typing the @ .

Everything executes fine, however I must have something configured wrong perhaps.

Does anyone know how to get the IntelliSense working?

Answer 1

Sounds like the web.config in your views folder is missing or missing some namespaces. Make a new web app project for mvc and copy the web.config out to the views folder in your project, might fix it.

Delete the web app you made when your done. I stick that web.config aside for safe keeping, happens to me a lot.