ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action

Chapter 4. Controller basics

This chapter covers

• Understanding the controller anatomy
• Storyboarding an application
• Mapping the presentation model
• Using input from the browser
• Passing view metadata
• Testing the controller

The focus of the Model-View-Controller pattern is the controller. With this pattern, every request is handled by a controller and rendered by a view. Without the controller, presentation and business logic would move to the view, as we’ve seen with Web Forms.

With the ASP.NET MVC Framework, every request routes to a controller, which is simply a class that implements the IController interface. Microsoft provides the base class System.Web.Mvc.Controller to make creating a controller easy. Which controller base class you ...