ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Building an MVC Page

This section walks you through the basics of creating a new ASP.NET MVC page. By going through this process you can hopefully get a good feel for how the MVC framework works at a high level.

The first thing we to need is a controller. To create a new controller, right-click the Controllers folder in the project created in the previous section, and choose Add and Controller. This brings up a dialog asking you for the controller name and also asks if you want to create stub methods for Create, Update, Delete, and Details. Leave that check box unchecked so we can create our methods manually; call the controller DemoController. When you’re ready, click the Add button.

What you are presented with is an empty MVC controller that ...