title: Creating an Empty MVC Project in Visual Studio 2015
body: <p>I am using VS 2015 Enterprise and I'm trying to create an empty MVC project.</p>
  
  <p>I go into the "Add | New Project..." dialog by right-clicking on the solution. I then select "Web" from the list along the left side and select "ASP.NET Web Application" as shown here:</p>
  
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  <p>Next, the following dialog window opens <strong>but</strong> the checkboxes for "Web Forms", "MVC" and "Web API" are all disabled. Does anyone know why they are disabled and how to enable them? Selecting "Web API" or "Web Application" (instead of "Empty") does not change the checkboxes' state -- they remain disabled.</p>
  
  <p>If I recall correctly I used to be able to create an empty MVC project in VS 2013 with no problem.</p>
  
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