Creating MVC 4 Application

Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application – myPhoneBook

In this article all screen shots are based out of Visual Studio 2012 but If you are using Visual Studio 2010 then you will find similar UIs there too.To Create a new MVC 4 application we need to click on 'New Project' menu. 'New Project' menu can be accessed from the start page itself or File --> New --> Project menu.

The below given image shows how to create a New Project from start page.

Creating New Project from File -->New -->Project.

Clicking on New Project menu will show a popup for selecting the required type of Project from the installed templates list. We can create Windows Application or normal ASP.NET Web Application etc using this popup but now we are more interested to create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application from scratch.

Give a proper name for this new MVC 4 application and click 'OK' button. I have given 'ePhoneBook' name as I'm going to use this project for all my MVC 4 series.

When you click 'OK', you’ll be presented with another dialog with Project Templates

Select appropriate Project Template (discussed in another section), View Engine and also if you want you can opt for creating a Test Project for this application. You can create a test project later also if you don't want to do right now. I have selected the Internet Application with Razor View Engine.