ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Controllers

The responsibility of the controller is to handle an incoming request, interact with the data sources as needed (web services, cloud services, or raw database access), decide which view is appropriate based on the request, and finally render the view. The controller makes sure that the view has access to the model and then tells the MVC framework to render it. In the next few sections you see how controllers interact with models and views in a sample application.