C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

ASP.NET Core MVC 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

Expand the Views folder, and then expand the Home folder. Note the three files with the .cshtml file extension.

Note

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

When the View() method is called in a controller's action method, ASP.NET Core 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 ...