Cannot create controller in VS 2012 MVC 4.0 - asp.net-mvc-4

When I create new project, create a new control have no problem. But when I'm using TFS in Visual Studios 2012 to get the latest code. All code is update, I cannot create new controller. This is my alert error from VS
could not load file or assembly'System.web.mvc, vesion = 3.0.0.0,culture = neutral, pulbickeytoken = 31bf3856ad364e35' or more of its this system cannot find the file specified.

Looks like you have a missing reference to System.Web.Mvc. Got to the "References" part of your project and add the missing reference.
Alternatively you could add the relevant System.Web.Mvc.Extensions Mvc 4 NuGet package which should add all references that your solution might be missing.

There is a discrepancy in your question between the error and your tag of MVC-4. So assuming you are aiming to use MVC 4.
In Visual Studio, go to the Package Manager Console via Tools -> Library Package Manager -> Package Manager Console. and run the following commands with the source : nuget.org as answered by Shiva in a Entity Framework question.
Edit:
Uninstall the previous version of MVC 3.0 and all references to it.
Uninstall-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Mv -Force
Upgrade to MVC 4.0 to match the tag you've added to the
question
Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc -Version 4.0.30506
Check that Entity Framework is installed. Check the project file (*.csproj, *.vbproj) references by Right clicking the project file and opening it in a text editor such as notepad++.
Rebuild or Clean (optional) your project. When you have a full compile of the project such as getting the code from TFS, it will check all the references and throw this exception. When you compile the project again this error will most likely not appear as you are not doing a full compile.
Check the TFS version of the project file for any discrepancies.

I got the same problem, the cause was a "Security Update". After this update Project references to System.Web.Mvc.dll are no longer resolved because the assembly version of System.Web.Mvc.dll was incremented.
There are two ways to solve this issue, by installing a nuguet package or by manually updating the reference to System.Web.MVC.dll (don’t use the one in the GAC)
This blog post contains a detailed explanation:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/10/16/microsoft-asp-net-mvc-security-update-broke-my-build.aspx

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Code builds fine in VS (2017) but not msbuild or TFS "assemblies manifest does not match the assembly reference

OK - here we go again. I posted an almost identical question here, but this one is a little different. I just generated a new version of a NuGet package and updated all of our csproj and config files to point to it and it builds locally fine, but when I kick off a TFS build it fails with the message:
##[error]ASPNETCOMPILER(0,0): Error ASPCONFIG: Could not load file or assembly 'PacsgearLib, Version=2.5.4.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=05b30ac9ab9dbb8e' or one of its dependencies. The
located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly
reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
Pacsgearlib 2.5.4 is the NuGet package I just generated, but all of our other projects build fine (and they share a lot of the same code). The main difference is that this project has a website in it. MSBuild is version 15.5.180.51428.
Here's a picture of the actual error:
Any ideas here? I've tried NuGet package manager to uninstall the package and reinstall it for the website and that hasn't helped.
I've been at this for a few hours so I thought maybe someone else (or a second set of eyes) might help.
I also just saw this and will check it out first thing Monday morning.
I finally got this to work by taking out the assemblybinding section of the web.config (someone else suggested that in another related post) and I also found a few .csproj files that had not been properly updated and were still pointing at 2.5.3.
If the local builds fine, and the error exist with TFS build. Besides, all of our other projects build fine (and they share a lot of the same code).
Combine with both, the issue may related to the specific package PacsgearLib, Version=2.5.4.0 on build agent. You could try to delete the packages and clean build agent, then try again.
Another way is update your package version number(do not update the package content), use TFS trigger the build again. Check if TFS build server will pick up the latest version of package.
Also set system.debug=true to Enable Verbose Debug Mode with more detail log info for troubleshooting

JetBrains Rider - The task factory "CodeTaskFactory" could not be loaded from the assembly

I am trying to build a former Windows project in JetBrains Rider on a Mac. I am getting the following build error:
NuGet.targets(100, 9): [MSB4175] The task factory "CodeTaskFactory"
could not be loaded from the assembly
"/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.2.0/lib/mono/msbuild/15.0/bin/Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll".
Method 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities.TaskLoggingHelper..ctor' not found.
Can anyone help?
This happens because custom msbuild code or NuGet packages you use are using a pre-MSBuild 15 way of referencing MSBuild's CodeTaskFactory.
Check all of your project / build files for occurrences of UsingTask elements referencing Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v$(MSBuildToolsVersion).dll or Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll (or similar dll reference) and change the dll to Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core.dll.
If the problematic code comes from a NuGet package, see if an update to the package is available or contact its authors.

Activating migration in a Asp.net5 project with Entity Framework 6

I am working on an project and tried know to activate the migration but when I open the Nugget package console and enter “enable-migrations myProjectName” I get the massage “The term 'Enable-Migrations' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”. First I thought that I have to add an extra line in my project.json under commands, so I added “"ef": "EntityFramework.Commands" but that didn’t do the trick.”
Would be grateful for any pointers.
You did mention you are using the project.json file making me believe you are using the default ASP.NET 5 template which uses EF7 .
You can verify this by looking in your project.json at the version number.
Mine for example is:
"EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-beta8",
"EntityFramework.SqlServer": "7.0.0-beta8",
or in your Package Manager Console type in:
get-command -module entityframework
which will give you the available commands you can use. From the above you can see I am using Entity Framework 7.
Enable-Migrations is not listed in the commands and that is the reason you are getting the error:
The term 'Enable-Migrations' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet
If you wish to rather use EF6 instead you would have to remove those entries in your project.json and you can add via nuget or the package manager console EF6. Just keep in mind if you use EF6 the ASP.NET 5 Identity 3 will break as it is dependent on EF7.
The command Enable-Migrations does not exist in Entity Framework 7 like it did in previous Entity framework versions.
In EF7 the task of creating the migrations folder is now combined with the Add-Migration command.
See below for the Add-Migration command differences between EF6 and EF7:

Can Orchard 1.8.x be installed on a build server that does not have Visual Studio Installed?

I also asked this question on the Orchard forum but no joy there yet. So here it is again...
https://orchard.codeplex.com/discussions/569444 Please read for a few more details.
IF the .NET 4/4.5 SDK came with a developer command prompt (like previous SDKs) then I would not be asking this question.
But since Orchard is build with .NET 4.5 I am getting build errors using the old SDK. It seems that my only option is to install Visual Studio Express on the build server.
I am doing that as we speak so at this point the question is purely academic but I am still curious.
EDIT
STILL NO JOY. Even after installing VS 2013 Express Web the vcvarsall.bat that usually configure the build environment is still not present. So this is no longer a curiosity question. The Express edition also cannot create my build environment. Help.
Seth
Here is my answer...copied and pasted from the forum.
This is a late answer. Bottom line is that I did eventually get our build server to build orchard projects. I am not sure if this is a complete answer or not as I should have answered as soon as I had it done. But I pretty sure this will work.
One other thing to note...It is quite possible that not all of these steps are required. I tried a lot of different things and it might be in the end some of the steps were not needed. It might also reflect a problem on our build server...especially the fact that I had to manually add registry entries.
But here it is without details.
Install the .NET Framework SDK for Windows 7.1.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
Install the .NET 4.5 Full
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653
Install Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx
Install the Visual Studio 2013 Build Tools
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx
Finally, even after that...it didn't work until I added the following registry keys. I would attach the .reg file but I don't see how.
Save the lines between the lines into a fixBuild.reg file. Then double click...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VC7]
"FrameworkDir32"="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\"
"FrameworkDir64"="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64"
"11.0"="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\"
"FrameworkVer32"="v4.0.30319"
"FrameworkVer64"="v4.0.30319"
"12.0"="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\"
Finally, to actually do the build, I created a batch file that does the build.
Save the lines between the lines into a doBuild.cmd file. Be sure to place this in the root of the source download...then double click to build...
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"
msbuild /t:FastBuild Orchard.proj
The first line gets your environment ready. The second build the project using the FastBuild target in the Orchard.proj file. You can read that file if you want to try other build targets.
******* EDIT
There is one thing I forgot to mention. And that is that one thing you have to do to get this to work is that you have to edit some CSPROJ files because the command line build fails with errors like these...
\Orchard\src\Orchard.Web\Modules\CKEditor\CKEditor.csproj(337,6): error : "None" element name for include "Placement.info" should be "Content".
\Orchard\src\Orchard.Web\Modules\Orchard.Tokens\Tests\Orchard.Tokens.Tests.csproj(82,6): error : "None" element name for include "app.config" sh
\Orchard\src\Orchard.Web\Modules\TinyMceDeluxe\TinyMceDeluxe.csproj(377,6): error : "None" element name for include "app.config" should be "Cont
\Orchard\src\Orchard.Web\Modules\Upgrade\Upgrade.csproj(156,6): error : "None" element name for include "app.config" should be "Content". [C:\Us
\Orchard\src\Orchard.Web\Themes\Themes.csproj(280,6): error : "None" element name for include "Upward\Views\Content-Story.Detail.cshtml" should
The fix is to do exactly what the error indicates. Open the csproj files and search/replace "
Also, some of the projects reference app.config files that do not exist in source. You also have to remove those references. I usually just delete the content node entirely or the group entirely.
Seth

Visual Studio 2013 C# Web Project builds but IDE reports The type or namespace name xxx could not be found error

When opening an MVC4 C# web project in Visual Studio 2013, the IDE reports the error "The type or namespace name '_' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference)", but the project builds and runs without any errors. Furthermore, intellisense does not include the project namespace.
The "missing" reference is to files within the same project.
for example; the web project namespace is "webproject.com", and references in a controller files to "webproject.com.models" is underlined in red with the error above.
I have checked the following:
All Solution projects are configured to use the same Target Framework(.Net 4)
web.config in the Views folder contains the namespace in the system.web.webPages.razor section
cleaned and rebuilt solution
deleted all bin and obj content
deleted .suo and .csproj.user files that were created by VS2010
The only way that I can get rid of these errors being reported in VS2013 is to unload then reload the project.
When opened in Visual Studio 2010 I do not get these problems.
I have the same issue.
ALthough the project compiles correctly, the code editor shows an error The type or namespace name '_' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference).
THere is one workaround. Just delete the *.SUO files and re-open the solution. THen for this only Session it works. Unfortunately after closing and reopening the solution the issue is back again. VS 2012 works fine.
Seems to be a bug in VS 2013....
My solution, when I encountered the problem with VS 2013 Express edition was to simply unload the offending project and reload. Opening the SUO or Project file and making changes had not affect.
Try to unload the project in VS2013, then right click the node and select edit "projectname.csproj". Check the individual references they might point to somewhere strange.
EDIT: the csproj file is an xml file and the references are located under Project -> ItemGroup -> Reference
I had the same issue.
It's a VS 2012 solution with different projects.
Search for all *.suo files and deleted them.
Rebuild and reopen Visual Studio.
There's a known issue with Web Application projects when bound to a TFS server that sounds like this issue. This occurs when the following TFS setting option is checked:
Options -> Source Control -> Environment -> Get everything when a solution or project is opened.
Disabling this option resolves the problem.
thanks,
Miguel Lacouture
[MSFT]
Same issue, on project reference.
I opened the referenced project file (*.csproj) with a text editor and did some cleanup:
1) reset these properties' values:
<PublishUrl>publish\</PublishUrl>
<InstallFrom>Disk</InstallFrom>
<UpdateEnabled>false</UpdateEnabled>
<IsWebBootstrapper>false</IsWebBootstrapper>
<TargetFrameworkProfile />
2) removed dirty platform/configurations:
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'x86|AnyCPU'">
...
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'x86|x86'">
...
Now I can compile without any issue.
Glad to share it with you! :))
Same issue. Opening the project's properties and making a change to the name (or any value) and then rebuilding seems to have resolved it.
I have just had this problem and none of the solutions here helped. I fixed mine by doing a repair of Visual Studio (An option when you select to uninstall the program). Hope this helps someone
I had same issue when I added a new class file ( e.g. MyClass.cs) and called it in some other C# code places. For some reason VS did not add that new class file to my working project folder (not seen in VS, but seen in Windows File Explorer). And, hence, the compile path for new class file is not included in the compile section of my project file (e.g. MyProject.csproj). So to solve this problem, First, right click on your working project > Add > Existing Item ... > Select your new class > OK.
Then, check the project file (*.csproj) and make sure a new element is inserted in the compile section such as:
Finally, rebuild your project and the problem should be solved.
Another reason for this issue is the project, I had long ago with VS, is my other project was set up with Client Profile as its target framework. So, to solve the issue: Right click your project in VS > Properties > Application tab > make sure Target Framework option is not Client Profile. You should change all projects in your solution to the same framework version AND all of them must not have Client Profile option.
Microsoft just released a new security update to be automatically applied to machines configured to use Microsoft Update.
Unfortunately, some ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4 VS projects can no longer build after the update is applied. These projects will fail with the following error:
"Could not locate the assembly "System.Web.Mvc,Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35,processorArchitecture=MSIL"
My project also had the error "The type or namespace name 'System.Web.Mvc' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference)". Installing the latest version of Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc solved my problem. See the following article from Microsoft for more info:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/10/16/microsoft-asp-net-mvc-security-update-broke-my-build.aspx
Unloading and then reloading the project worked for me.