Pro ASP.NET MVC 5, Fifth Edition

CHAPTER 20

Views

In Chapter 17, you saw how action methods can return ActionResult objects. As you learned, the most commonly used action result is ViewResult, which causes a view to be rendered and returned to the client. You have seen views being used in many examples already, so you know roughly what they do. In this chapter, I focus and clarify that knowledge. I begin by showing you how the MVC Framework handles ViewResults using view engines, including demonstrating how to create a custom view engine. Next, I will describe techniques for working effectively with the built-in Razor View Engine. Then I will cover how to create and use partial ...