ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition

4 Creating a website with Razor Pages

This chapter covers

• Introducing Razor Pages and the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
• Using Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core
• Choosing between Razor Pages and MVC controllers
• Controlling application flow using action results

In chapter 3 you learned about the middleware pipeline, which defines how an ASP.NET Core application responds to a request. Each piece of middleware can modify or handle an incoming request before passing the request to the next middleware in the pipeline.

In ASP.NET Core web applications, your middleware pipeline will normally include the EndpointMiddleware. This is typically where you write the bulk of your application logic, calling various other classes in your app. It also ...