Since you wrote that you do not have a csproj file, I assume that you have a WebForms website and not a WebApplication project.
I quickly looked through the tutorial in which you posted the link and it doesn't seem to mention this step, but when I last converted the WebForms website to MVC WebApplication (admittedly, that was a long time ago), I had first convert it to a WebForms WebApplication project.
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