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

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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?

@SLaks that option is not there when I right click on the controllers folder. — lopezbertoni
– lopezbertoni, Commented Dec 9, 2013 at 19:54

jessehouwing · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-09 22:27:40Z

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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

edited Dec 9, 2013 at 22:27

answered Dec 9, 2013 at 20:39

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lopezbertoni Over a year ago

Thanks, this helped a lot. I will add another link that show some other steps that I had to do to make this work.

jessehouwing Over a year ago

Blogged: blog.jessehouwing.nl/2013/12/…

crush Over a year ago

My Project file has these GUIDs, but I still don't have the option to add Controller/View. There is no Add Scaffold menu option either. No Controller/View templates appear in "Add New Item" menu.

Ayyash Over a year ago

I've been working on MVC5 for a while, but the shortcut keys and options for AddView keep disappearing on me :/

hakim · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-18 19:29:21Z

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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

answered May 18, 2015 at 19:29

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