C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development - Fifth Edition

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Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

This chapter is about building websites with a modern HTTP architecture on the server side using Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC, including the startup configuration, authentication, authorization, routes, request and response pipeline, models, views, and controllers that make up an ASP.NET Core MVC project.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Setting up an ASP.NET Core MVC website
• Exploring an ASP.NET Core MVC website
• Customizing an ASP.NET Core MVC website
• Using other project templates

Setting up an ASP.NET Core MVC website

ASP.NET Core Razor Pages are great for simple websites. For more complex websites, it would be better to have a more formal structure to manage that complexity. ...