Thank you for this and other messages. This MVC stuff is beginning to make sense to me. At least the part before the Model (data) has to be considered.
>Keep in mind that MVC3 was a VS2012 things. MVC4 was released with VS 2012.
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>>Another confusing part of VS 2012. The article by Scott Guthrie on ASP.NET MVC 3 says that when you create an empty project the layout file _Layout.cshtml is automatically created. Yet when creating a project in VS 2012 no such file is created. Even though when you create a view there is check box (checked by default) - Use a Layout or Mater Page -- Nothing is created by VS.
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