How do I get MVC installed into Visual Studio 2008?

Question

Does anyone have any basic instructions for setting up a first MVC project in Visual Studio 2008? I just installed Visual Studio 2008 and I am finding various instructions on how to set up the programming environment, but it's very complicated and there is no way to tell if the route I am taking is the best one.

If I want to start developing a MVC project, what do I need to do in order to get it going?

I am very confused by the "Web Client Guidance" instructions. For example, they don't say where to put the Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll file.

Answer 1

Use Visual studio 2008 sp1 to get mvc installed...

Here is the download link

To get started With MVC

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
.NET 3.5 SP1. Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are required to use certain parts of this feature.

Answer 2

The official Microsoft MVC links for Visual Studio 2008 now seem to be dead.

To get this working on my old Vista laptop (with Visual Studio 2008) in 2013, I did this: - Upgraded to Visual Studio SP1 - Followed this link to download and install "AspNetMVCRC-setup.msi" (1.74 MB): http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141184&clcid=0x409

Once that was in place, my old Visual Studio let me create "Web | ASP.NET MVC Web Application" projects. Took about an hour and a half from end-to-end.

Answer 3

If you are talking about ASP.NET MVC, you can get it from here: http://www.asp.net/mvc/download/

Answer 4

All I did was install the MVC installer and I opened their example app and it worked.\

MVC Installer