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"Add Scaffolded Item" Disappears After Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

I have been having issues with Visual Studio 2013 lately and one of them being how MVC 5 is handled in the IDE. I'm fine with them moving the adding of areas and controllers to a new submenu, but after Update 2, that context-menu item disappeared. Anyone else experiencing this? I can't find "Add Scaffolded Item..." after Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.

Solution

  • Another YMMV answer, but I was able to get this working by modifying the Registry. In particular:

    \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ExtensionManager has several branches, but the two of interest are: EnabledExtensions and PendingDeletions

    I moved the string key:

    Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.Mvc.5.0,5.0

    whose value is 

    C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 12.0\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\MICROSOFT\WEB\MVC\SCAFFOLDING\

    From PendingDeletions to EnabledExtensions.