Complete Sitecore newbie here i'm afraid. I've downloaded Sitecore 8.2 and have set it up to run through IIS which works fine. i have 3 folders
-- data
-- databases
-- website
I have created a TDS project in vs2015 and can sync with Sitecore. I want to create a new MVC project in my vs solution and then I presume publish it to the website folder of Sitecore, but Sitecore comes with a lot of files / dlls etc already in there. I'm wondering what type of web project I create in vs2015 and how I get the existing files into the web project. Do I simply create an MVC web application and copy and paste them over or is there a different way of doing this?
Yes. you can initially start with a simple MVC application. You dont have to include all the config files in your project.
That being said, you should include the config files that you customize or create.
The most common one would be yoursite.Config that should have the site details .
As your site keeps growing or if you add something like glassmapper or sitecore ship - your App_Config files will keep getting added.