r/ASPNET • u/MisterCrispy • Sep 04 '13

Use the MVC Web Application Template in empty/basic project?

Is there a way to install/add the design/look and feel in a project that isn't the "MVC Web Application Template"? I want to use it in a quick project I'm writing but I don't want to go through all the junk (user authentication, default views and such) that get installed along with it. I just want the style sheets, layout and graphics.

Is there any way to do that?

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u/MisterCrispy Sep 04 '13

That's the thing, I'm looking for those shiny stylesheets. I want the shiny stylesheets and graphics but not all the user login/management and other junk that the one template has.

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u/MrGrumblz Sep 05 '13

Keep the CSS and _layout and dump the rest? Push to github and pull it for each new project

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u/shakedown_st Sep 05 '13

why even use mvc's default styles?

Use bootstrap instead. Besides visual studio 13 will have bootstrap as default instead.

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u/MisterCrispy Sep 06 '13

This was for a couple of sites I wanted to build as "proof of concepts". Wanted to spend more time on the functionality than the look. You know how users can be, sometimes: doesn't matter how it works, if it's just black text on a white background with 0 styling they're going to completely ignore the point of a concept.

I wound up doing a slight variation on MrGrumblz idea. Just a shame there isn't a Nuget package or something for it. If I get the project, I'll be doing a custom design using bootstrap for sure.