Chapter 11. Views
Seen from outside, web applications are black boxes that convert requests into responses: URLs go in, and HTML comes out. Routing, controllers, and actions are important parts of ASP.NET MVC's internal machinery, but it would all be for nothing if you didn't produce some HTML. In MVC architecture, views are responsible for constructing that completed output.
You've seen views at work in many examples already, so you know roughly what they do. It's now time to focus and clarify that knowledge. By reading this chapter, you'll learn about
How
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view pages, inline code blocks, and automatic HTML-encoding work behind the scenesThe framework's wide range of built-in HTML helper methods
How to create reusable view segments called ...
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