How do I add ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

I have VS 2010 as follow:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Version 10.0.30319.1 RTMRel

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0.30319 RTMRel

Installed Version: Ultimate

ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application project template is not available. I just see ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application project template. How do I add MVC 3?

Just trying to follow the right path before I screw up my current installation.

Thanks

Solution 1

You need to go to http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3 and download the MVC3 installer. Then you will be good to go.

Solution 2

Download and install MVC 3 via web platform installer http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=MVC3

When you create a new project, make sure you have selected .NET Framework 4 in the drop down. You should be able to see both ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application and ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application

Solution 3

If you have the Web Platform Installer, you can get it that way, and it's probably the easiest way. If you don't have the Web Platform Installer, get it here:

Web Platform Installer

Solution 4

None of these worked for me. If you're using VS2010 SP1 then take a look at this article.

It worked.

Extract the exe with Winrar or similar and run the MSI files manually.

Apparently the exe fails due to the newer version of NuGet.

http://tedgustaf.com/en/blog/2011/4/installing-asp-net-mvc3-on-visual-studio-2010-sp1/

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Comments

[kheya]

I saw some people had issues with that stuff. Look here haacked.com/archive/2011/04/12/…

[Chris]

All I can say is that I've installed it with the downloaded installer and it works perfectly.

[xr280xr]

Seriously, how can this installer take this long? I'm at 30 min and it's still going...