title: VS2012 MVC 4 Intellisense for CSS Classes in partial views not working
body: <p>PROBLEM:</p>
  
  <p>I have a master page where the CSS is embdeded, and I am trying to access the CSS classes through  the VS2012 intellisense on my partial views.</p>
  
  <p>RESEARCH &amp; SOLUTIONS:</p>
  
  <p>I have spent many hours now trying to resolve this issue and have noted a number of other stackoverflow posts regarding this issue:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4009040/viewing-css-intellisense-in-partial-views-and-content-pages-visual-studio-2010">Viewing CSS Intellisense in partial views and Content pages - Visual Studio 2010?</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids/archive/2009/06/07/why-does-visual-studio-not-resolve-my-css-class-names.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids/archive/2009/06/07/why-does-visual-studio-not-resolve-my-css-class-names.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/961629/why-does-visual-studio-not-resolve-my-css-class-names">Why does Visual Studio not resolve my CSS class names?</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://derekreynolds.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/why-does-visual-studio-not-resolve-my-css-class-names-or-js-method-names/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://derekreynolds.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/why-does-visual-studio-not-resolve-my-css-class-names-or-js-method-names/</a></p>
  
  <p>someone has also posted a video showing the EXACT issue I'm having:
  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bp1TxswSHQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bp1TxswSHQ</a></p>
  
  <p>The solutions provided are to use relative path with the @if (false) {... trick on the partial view page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@if (false) {
      &lt;link type="text/css" rel="Stylesheet" href="../../content/css/styles.css"/&gt;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OR, to use the following on the partial view:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" runat="server" media="screen" href="~/content/css/styles.css" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>None of these seem to work for me.</p>
  
  <p>I am using VS 2012 Express. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>