Visual Studio Project template allows you to create a simple ASP.NET MVC application. To use C1 MVC controls, few additional steps are required to configure the project created using the basic Visual Studio project template.

1. Open Visual Studio and Select Create a new project.
2. In the Create a new project window, select ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework) and click Next.
   
   
3. In the Configure your new project window, set a Name and Location for your application. Click Create.
   
   
4. In the Create a new ASP.NET Web application window, select MVC and click Create.
   
   
5. From the Solution Explorer, expand the folder Views and double click the web.config file to open it.
6. Add the following markups in <namespaces></namespaces> tags, within the <system.web.webPages.razor></system.web.webPages.razor> tags.

   HTML	Copy Code
   <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Fluent" />

7. (Optional) To add specific controls in your application, you need to add the following markups in <namespaces></namespaces> tags below the C1.Web.Mvc markup.

   Control	Markup
   Financial Chart	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Finance" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Finance.Fluent" />
   FlexSheet	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Sheet" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Sheet.Fluent" />
   OLAP	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Olap" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Olap.Fluent" />
   FlexViewer	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Viewer" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.Viewer.Fluent" />
   MultiRow	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.MultiRow" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.MultiRow.Fluent" />
   TransposedGrid	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.TransposedGrid" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.TransposedGrid.Fluent" />
   TransposedMultiRow	<add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.TransposedMultiRow" /> <add namespace="C1.Web.Mvc.TransposedMultiRow.Fluent" />

8. Save the changes made to web.config file.
9. Add a license file manually to the application. For detailed steps on adding the license file, see Adding License File Manually.
10. Add the ASP.NET MVC Edition references to the project. In the Solution Explorer, right click References | Add Reference. Now, browse to the location- C:\Program Files (x86)\ComponentOne\ASP.NET MVC Edition\bin, select C1.Web.Mvc.dll and click Add. Set the Copy Local property of the C1.Web.Mvc.dll to True.

11. (Optional) Add additional references to use specific controls in your MVC Application based on the control.

    Control	Assembly (Location - C:\Program Files (x86)\ComponentOne\ASP.NET MVC Edition\bin)
    Financial Chart	C1.Web.Mvc.Finance.dll
    FlexSheet	C1.Web.Mvc.FlexSheet.dll
    OLAP	C1.Web.Mvc.Olap.dll
    FlexViewer	C1.Web.Mvc.FlexViewer.dll
    MultiRow	C1.Web.Mvc.MultiRow.dll
    TransposedGrid	C1.Web.Mvc.TransposedGrid.dll
    TransposedMultiRow	C1.Web.Mvc.TransposedMultiRow.dll

    Note: All the assemblies mentioned above automatically installs the required dependencies. For more information, see Dependencies.
12. After completing the steps above, register the resources for the controls to be used in the application. For more information, see Registering Resources.