ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition

19 Creating a website with MVC controllers

This chapter covers

• Creating a Model-View-Controller (MVC) application
• Choosing between Razor Pages and MVC controllers
• Returning Razor views from MVC controllers

In this book I’ve focused on Razor Pages over MVC controllers for server-rendered HTML apps, as I consider Razor Pages to be the preferable paradigm in most cases. In this chapter we dig a bit more into exactly why I consider Razor Pages to be the right choice and take a brief look at the alternative.

In section 19.2 you’ll create a default MVC application using a template so you can familiarize yourself with the general project layout of an MVC application. We’ll look at some of the differences between an MVC application and a Razor Pages ...