When I go to File > New Website there isn’t a template for MVC.

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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T07:01:08+00:00 2026-05-11T07:01:08+00:00

When I go to File > New Website there isn’t a template for MVC. I googled "how to use MVC with vwd?" and these links came up

but none of them seem to work. I just get assembly reference errors and after I hookup the assemblies I get:

Error 1 ‘System.Web.Routing.Route’ does not contain a constructor that takes ‘0’ arguments

Error 2 Cannot implicitly convert type ‘AnonymousType#1’

Error 3 Cannot implicitly convert type ‘System.Type’ to ‘System.Web.Routing.IRouteHandler’.

and so on…

Is VWD2008 compatible with ASP.NET MVC?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2026-05-11T07:01:08+00:00

you also need to have sp1 installed.

if you do have vwd express 2008 sp1 installed, you might have the same problem i had when i first went looking for MVC in the vwd menu.

try going to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Import and Export Settings’ and then ‘Reset all settings.’

after that, you need to create a new project and select the MVC template. (don’t create a new web site).

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