Visual Studio 2013 - VB.NET MVC 5 Template

Question

I cannot locate a vb.net MVC5 Template in VS2013 Ultimate (just installed).

Answer 1

An important thing to remember is that ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013 has migrated to "One ASP.NET" which consists of a single Web Application environment that supports all of the major development technologies (Web Forms, MVC, Web API, etc.).

You'll just need to follow these steps to set up an MVC5 application in Visual Basic :

1. Create a New Project.
2. Choose the ASP.NET Web Application (ensure that the Web tab is selected under Visual Basic templates within Visual Studio)
3. In the dialog that appears, select the MVC template.
4. Click Ok to create your MVC application.

You should see something like this in the image below :

As far as an explicit MVC5 template, I'm not sure a template is currently available in Visual Studio 2013 (since it uses the One ASP.NET approach) however you may want to consider downloading the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 Update for Visual Studio 2012 which adds the MVC5 Templates in Visual Studio 2012 and would allow you to explicitly use an MVC5 Template within Visual Studio 2012 :

Answer 2

• Click New Project, then select Visual Basic on the left and select Web.
• Verify that you have selected .NET Framework 4.5 from the drop down list up top.
• Below the framework drop down list, select ASP.NET Web Application. Name your project whatever you wish and then click OK.
• In the New ASP.NET Project dialog, click MVC and then click OK.

Your ASP.NET MVC 5 VB.NET web project should now load up.

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Note: I do not believe the preview version of Visual Studio 2013 came with the VB.NET template.