This blog post, part of a series on Couchbase integration, details the process of starting an ASP.NET MVC project and integrating Couchbase using its .NET SDK. The author begins by explaining how to set up a new ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio and incorporate the Couchbase client library via NuGet. Instructions are provided for configuring the application to connect to a Couchbase cluster by specifying a cluster node in the Global.asax.cs file and initializing the ClusterHelper. The importance of using an IoC container, specifically StructureMap, for managing dependencies is highlighted, and a guide is given for registering an IBucket instance, which accesses Couchbase buckets. The post concludes with a demonstration of using the IBucket in an ASP.NET controller to retrieve and display data from Couchbase, setting the stage for more advanced functionality to be covered in subsequent posts.