visual studio 2010 - Razor Intellisense Not Working VS2010 SP1Rel MVC3 from WPI Win7 x64

Question

I have Visual Studio 2010 /SP1 / MVC 3 (With April Tools Update) installed on a machine with a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit Professional.

I do not have resharper installed. I never installed an RC or Beta of anything on this new OS Install.

My install steps were as follows:

1. Install Visual Studio Professional.
2. Install Web Platform Installer.
3. Install Visual Studio SP1 from WPI.
4. Install Microsoft ASP.net MVC 3 (with April Tools Update)
5. Install Productivity Power Tools

Help > About Microsoft Visual Studio shows:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0.30319 SP1Rel

System.Web.Mvc.dll file version shows: 3.0.20105.0

Once installed I did the following:

1. Open Visual Studio.
2. File > New Project
3. Choose "ASP.Net MVC 3 Web Application".
4. On the "New ASP.NET MVC 3 Project" dialog. I chose "Internet Application", "Razor" View Engine. Hit OK.

Within the project here is the behavior:

1. Open any cshtml file and Razor @blocks are not highlighted.
2. Intellisense gives html snippets as options in and outside of razor blocks but does not recognize Html helpers or models etc within them.
3. The project builds.
4. You can run the project and everything works when built. Razor views are rendered normally.

Does anyone know a definitive set of prerequisites to have Razor Intellisense working? Something I can diff between the other Win7 64-bit machines that have Razor Intellisense working and the 2 that have this issue? Registry entries? Are there any Visual Studio logs that can help debug this? After hours of frustration and reading every Razor Intellisense post and question I have run across without coming up with anything that works I am just hoping for some new thoughts on what to troubleshoot/try next.

Thanks for any help on this.

Answer 1

I know it's been a while since the last post, but I fixed mine by uninstalling MVC 2 and MVC2 VS Tools, and only leaving MVC 3 installed.