“Add Scaffolded Item” Disappears After Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

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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.

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If you right click on your Controllers folder (for example), do you see "Add" > "New Scaffolded Item..." ? I see it in my 2013 Update 2 on an MVC 5.1 project. – mitch
I have uninstalled and reinstalled and it's there after the base install of Visual Studio 2013 Pro, but after the Update 2 install and a reboot. That menu item is gone. – clockwiseq
I would appreciate if you answer my question too: stackoverflow.com/questions/31567537/… – Kardo
@Kardo, try installing Update 5 and see if the scaffolding options return. In my case, I was under a short time constraint, so I just formatted my machine and reinstalled, but the updates generally correct these issues. – clockwiseq

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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.