How to enable MVC 5 Razor template when adding view on VS2013 express

Question

On my VS2012 I can view the MVC 5 Razor template when adding view. See attachment:

But when I'm using VS2013 express edition I can only see is the MVC 5 View Page Razor.

I already install everything but the rest razor template is not existing. Help please...

Answer 1

You can use the top-most button in the Add context menu called View... (as can be seen in your second screenshot). There, you can choose from different options (partial/non-partial, use/don't use a layout view), but the option for a layout page is not available there. But you can just create a normal view and name it accordingly I guess.

Remark: My Visual Studio 2013 Premium additionally has the 4 buttons you are missing; I don't have VS2013 Express to check that as well.

Additionally, the context menu Add => View... can also be opened by right-clicking inside an action method in the controller to create a view in the corresponding folder (using a template). So you generally don't have to manually navigate to the Views folder.