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Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
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Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications

by William Penberthy
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
14h 19m
English
Microsoft Press
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Objective 3.4: Design and implement routes

An ASP.NET MVC route is a definition of how a URL can be translated into an action on a method. Without the concept of a route, the entire concept of MVC breaks down. With Web Forms, IIS maps a request to a particular set of functionality because the request is to a page, a physical object residing on the file system of a web server. A route, or mapped URL, relates to a set of functionality wrapped in a single assembly file. Because you are simply calling a method on an assembly into the HTTP protocol, and because of the string-based nature of HTTP addresses, there needs to be some way to map between the string address and the method that will accept the request.

The route is the bridge between your users ...

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