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# Creating an MVC app

### Project creation

The walkthrough assumes you have Visual Studio with ASP.NET workload and the latest .NET Core SDK installed 

* Open the terminal
* Change to the directory that will contain the project
* Create the MVCMovie project
* Change directory to get into the project folder
* Run

The commands needed are shown below:

```
dotnet new mvc -o MvcMovie
```

```
cd MvcMovie
```

```
dotnet watch
```

{% hint style="info" %}
`dotnet new mvc -o MvcMovie` creates a new ASP.NET Core MVC project in the *MvcMovie* folder.
{% endhint %}