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asp.net-corevisual-studio-2015
Sravan Dudyalu
Sravan Dudyalu

Reputation: 185

Cannot add view by right click in visual studio 2015 update 3

I was working on creating sample app using ASP.NET Core using Visual studio 2015 update 3. I didn't see "add view" or "go to view" option when I right clicked on the action method. Is there any settings I need to change in visual studio?

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 1710

Answers (2)

Ankit Pandey
Ankit Pandey

Reputation: 21

Try to Delete that controller and then add View and also check Name of controller folder is correct

Upvotes: 0

Jérôme MEVEL
Jérôme MEVEL

Reputation: 7812

You need to understand the difference between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core.

In the first one, you had two different types of controllers:

  • View Controllers (inherit from System.Web.Mvc.Controller)
  • Web API Controllers (inherit from System.Web.Http.ApiController)

So when you clicked on "Go to view" from that method

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

Visual Studio was smart enough to understand that the view /Home/Index.cshtml was the good one to navigate to.

With ASP.NET Core you don't have such difference anymore, all controllers inherit from Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Controller no matter the controller returns a view or some raw data. And they can both return an IActionResult whatever the return type.

I believe Visual Studio could improve a bit and detects there is a line return View(); in your method, but ASP.NET Core is new and there are tons of more important features with higher priority to implement for the moment...

Upvotes: 4

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