Bare bones ASP.NET MVC Project Template

One minor annoying thing about starting a new ASP.NET MVC project, is the template that's installed has a bunch of stuff that belongs in a Starter Kit type project, not a new project template.  So I created my own empty project template that has the bare minimum to get started.  I removed all the membership crap and .NET 3.5 shite that clutters the web.config, and stuck the preview 4 assemblies in a libs directory, within the project. Here's the template http://panteravb.com/downloads/ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Project.zip.

Installing the Template

Using this post by Dave Bouwman and this msdn article, here's a short pictorial on how to install the template:

First, find out where your user project templates directory is located.  Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions:

Next, download and copy the zip from above to the that directory:

Next, run this command from the command line devenv -installvstemplates.  Once that completes fire up visual studio, choose new project, and you should see this: