ASP.NET MVC is a web application development framework built on top of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. ASP.NET MVC framework is a lightweight, highly testable presentation framework that is integrated with existing ASP.NET features.
Here I’m listing down the ASP.NET MVC versions and its release dates,
Let us see the stable ASP.NET MVC versions and its supported Visual Studio versions ( and .NET Frameworks ) together,
ASP.NET MVC 1 – Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (.NET Framework 3.5)
ASP.NET MVC 2 – Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (.NET Framework 3.5, 4.0)
ASP.NET MVC 3 – Visual Studio 2010 (.NET Framework 4.0)
ASP.NET MVC 4 – Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2012 (.NET Framework 4.0, 4.5)
ASP.NETMVC 5 – Visual Studio 2013 (.NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1)