ASP.NET Core views

The responsibility of a view is to transform a model into HTML or other formats. There are multiple view engines that can be used to do this. The default view engine for ASP.NET MVC 3 and later is called Razor, and it uses the @ symbol to indicate server-side code execution.

Rendering the Home controller's views

In the Solution Explorer window, expand the Views folder. Expand the Home folder. Note the three files with the .cshtml file extension.

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The .cshtml file extension means this is a file that mixes C# and HTML.

When the View method is executed in a controller action, MVC looks in the Views folder for a subfolder with the same name as the current controller, that is, Home. It then looks for a file with the same name as ...

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