Where can I find System.Web.MVC dll in a system where MVC 3 is installed?

Question

I want to know where I can find the System.Web.MVC dll in a system, where MVC 3 is already installed. I want to it on an X64-based system.

Any idea how

Answer 1

If you have found this question because you don't see System.Web.MVC.dll in .NET Framework Assemblies on your machine then you should install Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc NuGet package into your project. Then you will be able to using System.Web.MVC;

Default ASP.NET MVC Visual Studio project templates do exactly so and they don't use dll's from Microsoft ASP.NET folder on your machine.

Hope it will help somebody.

Answer 2

the default folder would be like the following:

MVC 5

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Stack 5\Packages\ Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.5.0.0\lib\net45\System.Web.Mvc.dll

MVC 4

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 4\Assemblies\System.Web.Mvc.dll

MVC 3

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 3\Assemblies\System.Web.Mvc.dll

MVC 2

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 2\Assemblies\System.Web.Mvc.dll