Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

Chapter 3. Controllers

As discussed in the first chapter, all web applications receive requests from the server and produce a response, that is delivered back to the end user. A Controller does the job of receiving the request and producing the output based on the input data in ASP.NET MVC.

In this chapter, you'll be learning about the following topics:

• Role of the Controller in ASP.NET MVC applications
• Routing introduction and concepts
• Creating your first ASP.NET 5 application
• Installation of the ASP.NET Core NuGet packages in your application
• Creation of your first Controller and action method, which returns a simple Hello World
• Adding a View and making the changes that allow your Controller to use that View
• Adding a Model and passing that Model data ...