Getting started with Bootstrap

Visual Studio 2013 changes the default template used for MVC-based projects to use the open source Bootstrap framework. Bootstrap provides a dynamic design that automatically reacts in a useful way to the resizing of browser windows, which also lends itself to easily accommodate the wide range of phones and tablets in use today.

You may recall the default MVC template from VS2012, which is shown as follows:

Getting started with Bootstrap

In VS2013, a One ASP.NET project using MVC with Bootstrap looks like the following screenshot:

Getting started with Bootstrap

In this recipe, we ...

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