Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core

Controllers

Controllers are responsible for the workflow of the application. They retrieve user requests, work with the model, and then choose the view to render.

Controllers in ASP.NET Core MVC are C# classes that reside under the Controllers directory and inherit from Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Controller. Controller classes must match one of the following rules as well:

• The class name ends with Controller, for example, UsersController
• The class inherits from a class whose name ends with Controller
• The class is decorated with the [Controller] or [ApiController] attribute

Public methods inside controller classes are also called actions. Each action handles a different request from end users and generates output. Usually, a controller class ...