ASP.NET Core in Action

Chapter 7. Rendering HTML using Razor views

This chapter covers

• Creating views to display HTML to a user
• Using C# and the Razor markup syntax to generate HTML dynamically
• Reusing common code with layouts and partial views

In the previous four chapters, I’ve covered a whole cross-section of MVC, including the MVC design pattern itself, controllers and actions, routing, and binding models. This chapter shows how to create your views—the UI to your application. For desktop apps, that might be WinForms or WPF. For Web APIs, that might be a nonvisual view, such as a JSON or XML response, which is subsequently used to generate HTML in the client’s browser. For traditional web applications, the UI is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that’s delivered ...