Decreased interactivity of ID ID 2017 in MVC 5 Razor look at the 2015 project

Question

I just installed VS 2017 and open the MVC 5 project created in VS 2015. The application works fine, but I experience limited interactivity between my MVC Razor code and the 2017 IDE.

Here is the context menu when I right-click on the HTML helper in VS 2015:

However, I only see this in 2017:

Also note the lack of syntactic color coding in version 2017. As if it doesn't recognize Razor syntax at all.

I have not made any special solutions / projects. I just opened the solution in 2017 and expected it to offer me to update the files needed for the update.

Answer 1

So, it turns out that installing the component for VS 2017 is modular, since you need to install exactly what you need. This is different from 2015 (at least as far as I remember) when all components are included in the installation.

I tend to not read entire pages and just focus on what seems like the “most complete” option. In my case, I only chose the Universal Windows Platform development (doesn’t this look like everything you need?). If I bother to look at all the components, I would see ASP.NET and web development.

So, after changing my installation, now I see all the Razor syntax in my views.

Answer 2

Restore the installation of Visual Studio. It happened to me.

Answer 3

Go to the "Tools" menu and set up menus and ribbons

also see: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wdee4yb6.aspx

and or: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wdee4yb6(v=vs.110).aspx

try resetting your existing window layout or menu and options.

or restore VS