How can I add the MVC 5 project template to VS 2012?

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I have Visual Studio 2012 and want to add the MVC 5 template.

How can this be done or it is only available in VS 2013?

Any idea when it is going to be release (separately for VS 2012)? — Kamran Shahid, Sep 25 '13 at 17:12

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '13 at 15:36

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Update your Visual studio, Here's the link

https://www.microsoft.com/web/handlers/webpi.ashx/getinstaller/WebNode11Pack.appids

You can find more detail from below post.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/11/18/announcing-release-of-asp-net-and-web-tools-2013-1-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx

answered Nov 21 '13 at 15:36

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Here the direct link, web platform is broken: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/7/2F7FA65F-E8BB-42A2-99A2-7F355225D30C/AspNetWebTools2013_1Setup.exe – Rodrigo Reis Jan 20 '16 at 17:11

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 29 '14 at 19:41

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MVC 5/ Razor 3 support for VS 2012 has not shipped yet. If you want to get started with it, you might want to just install VS 2013 express. It will run side by side with VS 2012.

edited Apr 29 '14 at 19:41

gunr2171

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answered Oct 31 '13 at 21:14

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 29 '14 at 20:15

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This is what you need: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41532

These are generally some VS2013 asp net features which one can install for vs 2012 (from Microsoft)

answered Apr 29 '14 at 20:15

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 03 '13 at 17:16

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You can upgrade your MVC 4 application to MVC 5 as as given in here. See this link also.

answered Nov 03 '13 at 17:16

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How can I add the MVC 5 project template to VS 2012?

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