ASP.NET MVC in Action

Chapter 3. The controller in depth

This chapter covers

• Understanding controller anatomy

• Leveraging viewless controllers

• Testing controllers

• Using form and querystring values

• Binding action parameter

• Developing action filters

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 have 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. The controller base class you choose is ...