Ok, so literally today I’ve decided I need to make the leap to MVC.  I’ve worked with c# .Net for several years and would like to try converting a large application I wrote to MVC.  So I opened my existing solution and added a boilerplate MVC project via
VS2013.  Started poking around at the cshtml pages and noticed I can’t view them like I do with my non-MVC project.  All I can do is edit straight code – looks like if I want to see what it looks like I have to crank up the application.  Is that correct or
am I missing something?

There is no design view available for MVC applications. View them in your browser instead.