To build the BrewHow mobile app, we are going to use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. If you don't have a version of Visual Studio capable of building ASP.NET MVC 4 projects, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web is freely available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads.
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We will constantly refer to Visual Studio or Visual Studio 2012. These are references to any version of Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2010 SP1 that is capable of building ASP.NET MVC 4 apps.
We will start with creating a new solution in Visual Studio 2012. Start by launching Visual Studio. Click on the FILE menu and then click on New Project…. You may also press Ctrl + Shift +N.
Visual Studio will then prompt you with a dialog box asking you for the type of solution you want to create. We will be creating a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web application.
Select the ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application icon and provide a name and location for the new project in the Name and Location...