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Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3 (C#)
By Rick Anderson|January 12, 2011
This tutorial will teach you the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC Web application using Microsoft Visual Web
Developer 2010 Express Service Pack 1, which is a free version of Microsoft Visual Studio. Before you start, make
sure you've installed the prerequisites listed below. You can install all of them by clicking the following link:
Web Platform Installer. Alternatively, you can individually install the prerequisites using the following links:
Visual Studio Web Developer Express SP1 prerequisites
ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
SQL Server Compact 4.0 (runtime + tools support)
If you're using Visual Studio 2010 instead of Visual Web Developer 2010, install the prerequisites by clicking the
following link: Visual Studio 2010 prerequisites.
A Visual Web Developer project with C# source code is available to accompany this topic. Download the C#
version. If you prefer Visual Basic, switch to the Visual Basic version of this tutorial.
What You'll Build
You'll implement a simple movie-listing application that supports creating, editing, and listing movies from a
database. Below are two screenshots of the application you’ll build. It includes a page that displays a list of
movies from a database: