How does one go about installing ASP.NET MVC 4 on a server. The Web Platform Installer insists on installing all kinds of Visual Studio 2010 stuff. I don't see a "server only" installation. For example, it wants to install "Visual Studio 2010 Core SP1" and "Visual Web Developer Express".
We have many applications developed with ASP.NET MVC 4 and below versions. As per the Microsoft Support Policy, the retirement date for ASP.NET MVC is July 1st, 2019.
ASP.NET MVC is no longer in active development. The last version update was in November 2018. Despite this, a lot of projects are using ASP.NET MVC for web solution development. As to JetBrains' research, 42% of software developers were using the framework in 2020.
ASP.NET MVC 4 is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using well-established design patterns and the power of the ASP.NET and the . NET framework. This new, fourth version of the framework focuses on making mobile web application development easier.
Get the standalone installer from http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc4
The safest thing to do would be to mark your reference to System.Web.Mvc as "copy local = true" in the reference's properties window. When you do a deploy, it will get copied into your bin folder.
It feels a bit backwards, but there you go.
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