In the resulting New ASP.NET Web Application, I selected MVC and checked off the MVC option. At this point, if you’re following along, you have a vanilla ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3 project.

If you want to build a Web application quickly, do it with ASP.NET Web Forms. However, you have to be willing to give up a lot: client-side coding and Ajax is more awkward in Web Forms than MVC, you ...