I am following along with Shawn Wildermuth's Node.js for .NET Developers. I have already install NodeJS Tools for Visual Studio from nodejstools.codeplex.com.
Everything appears to have installed properly, I have just created a "NodeJS Blank Website".
However, when Shaun says to right click the NPM node in the solution and choose "Manage NPM Modules", I do not have it.
I circumvented the problem by doing an install from NodeJS command prompt directly but I sure would like to know why Visual Studio is ever changing and never consistent. I need a new & better IDE.
Help anyone?
I had same problem, and according to the Error message window, PATH in Environment Variable was not set to the location to nodejs folder. After I changed nodejs folder location to C:/Program Files/nodejs, right click and "Install new npm packages..." worked well to install Express. Hoping this would help for you too.