Question

After installing ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta into Visual Studio 2010, I have this command in context menu after right-clicking on Controllers folder, but when I click it, there shows up Select a recipe to run dialog without anything to select. What is this thing for and why is such important to show up in context menu usually used to add controller (it’s next to Add|Controller command)?

Answer 1

It’s covered in the release notes:

The new Recipes feature enables Visual Studio to generate
solution-specific code based on packages that you can install using
NuGet. The Recipes framework makes it easy for developers to write
code-generation plugins, which you can also use to replace the
built-in code generators for Add Area, Add Controller, and Add View.
Because recipes are deployed as NuGet packages, they can easily be
checked into source control and shared with all developers on the
project automatically. They are also available on a per-solution
basis.

The Haacked also bloged about recipes.