Chapter 7. Routing

Routing is one of the important concepts in the ASP.NET MVC application as it takes care of incoming requests and maps them to the appropriate controller's actions.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about the following topics:

  • Using the MapRoute method to configure routing
  • Different types of routing with examples—convention and attribute-based
  • Using HTTP verbs in attribute-based routing

We briefly discussed routing in Chapter 3 , Controllers. In this chapter, we are going to discuss routing along with several options available to customize it in ASP.NET Core.

Convention-based routing

The routing engine is responsible for mapping the incoming requests to the appropriate action method of the controller.

In the Configure method of ...

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