How to display missing ASP.NET MVC 1.0 VS Project Templates in Visual Studio 2008?

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Visual Studio 2008 is not picking up the MVC 1.0 project templates. The MVC 1.0 release is installed on my system along with .NET 3.5 SP1 (pre-reqs).

I can't find MVC templates in the VS App's disk folders. The folders I'm searching are:

VS 2008 (9.0)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\, subdirectory siblings: ProjectTemplates/, ProjectTemplatesCache/ and Templates/

  • Note: all templates shown in VS New Project dialog are found in here

How do I find the project template and register it for Visual Studio, or is there a workaround?

For reference, my other VS installs DO have the MVC templates...

I have multiple version of VS installed including Express, 2005 Professional and 2008 Team. I'm only concerned about 2008 missing the MVC templates.

VS 2005 (8.0)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\VSTA\ItemTemplates\

  • no MVC templates in here - good

VS Other
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio

  • no templates here - good

Solution

After following accepted the links of the answer below, my MVC project templates appear as shown alt text http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6393/mvc2rc2vsts2008.jpg

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what is the problem? Template is installed on your system, and you just want mechanism to get it into visual studio -> new project -> available templates? in the development environment, means a setting to reference it? – Mutant
this one might be helpful - forums.asp.net/t/1384062.aspx – Mutant
@Mutant: good point. I rearranged the question to provide more immediate clarity about the problem. – John K
@Mutant: I did download and install MVC separately as the links suggests. Problem is it's not made available in VS New Project templates. – John K
Understood. I tried to install, for me even its same. can you check this one if its helpful - go.microsoft.com/?LinkID=8900223 – Mutant

1 Answers

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This one might be helpful - forums.asp.net/t/1384062.aspx

can you check this one as well - go.microsoft.com/?LinkID=8900223 (<< WORD doc download)

(John K/Feb 2012) I've inlined some parts of external answers referenced by the above links for context here. Visit the links for full context.

GarlandGreene Member 128 Points 25 Posts Re: MVC templates in Visual Studio Professional Edition 2008 Feb 12, 2009 04:24 PM|LINK

you have to install the ASP.Net MVC Framework Release Candidate, the framework and the templates are not delivered with VS 2008. You can download the Release Candidate from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141184&clcid=0x409