ASP.NET Core views

The responsibility of a view is to transform a model into HTML or other formats. There are multiple view engines that can be used to do this. The default view engine for ASP.NET MVC 3 and later is called Razor, and it uses the @ symbol to indicate server-side code execution.

Rendering the Home controller's views

In the Solution Explorer window, expand the Views folder. Expand the Home folder. Note the three files with the .cshtml file extension.

Tip

The .cshtml file extension means this is a file that mixes C# and HTML.

When the View method is executed in a controller action, MVC looks in the Views folder for a subfolder with the same name as the current controller, that is, Home. It then looks for a file with the same name as the current action, that is, Index, About, or Contact.

In the Index.cshtml file, notice the block of code wrapped in @{ }. This will execute first and can be used to store data that needs to be passed into a shared layout file:

@{
    ViewData[...