How do I install ASP.NET MVC 5 in Visual Studio 2012?

Is there a way to install ASP.NET MVC 5 in Visual Studio 2012?

I've tried using NuGet (http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc). But I think that it should come as a Visual Studio extension, but I can't find that anywhere.

Or it is available only in Visual Studio 2013?

Solution 1:

Microsoft has provided for you on their MSDN blogs: MVC 5 for VS2012. From that blog:

We have released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012. This release brings a ton of great improvements, and include some fantastic enhancements to ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Scaffolding and Entity Framework to users of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web.

You can download and start using these features now.

The download link is to a Web Platform Installer that will allow you to start a new MVC5 project from VS2012.

Solution 2:

You can use Visual Studio 2012.

Simply update your NuGet package in Visual Studio to Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc 5.0.

You may have to search pre-release.

Also the default project comes with Entity Framework 6.0, and ASP.NET Razor 3.0.

You may also need ASP.NET Identity Core and OWIN.

All of these can be downloaded/updated through menu Tools → Library package manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution....

If you don't yet have NuGet, follow this tutorial:

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/start-here/installing-nuget

Solution 3:

There are a few installs you may need to apply for ASP.NET MVC 5 support in Visual Studio 2012. Update 4 seems to include the Web Tools update now.

• Windows 8.1 SDK
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
• ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012

You don't have to install the full Windows 8.1 SDK if you are just looking for the option to build web applications, just the .NET Framework 4.5.1 option in the installer. The full install is about 1.1 GB, but just the .NET installer is only 72 MB.