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Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

You're reading from   Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming Learn the fundamentals of ASP.NET MVC and build real-world web applications using ASP.NET Core MVC

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463838
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anuraj Parameswaran Anuraj Parameswaran
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Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi
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Preface 1. Introduction to ASP.NET Core 2. Setting Up the Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Controllers 4. Views 5. Models 6. Validation 7. Routing 8. Beautifying ASP.NET MVC Applications with Bootstrap 9. Deployment of ASP.NET Core Application 10. Building HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web API 11. Improving Performance of an ASP.NET Core Application 12. ASP.NET Core Identity

Convention-based routing


The routing engine is responsible for mapping the incoming requests to the appropriate action method of the controller.

In the Configure method of the Startup class, we have mapped the following route:

app.UseMvc(routes => 
    { 
        routes.MapRoute(name: "default", 
        template: "{controller=Employee}/{action=Index}/{id?}"); 
    }); 

The MapRoute method has two parameters:

  • name: This represents the name of the route as we could configure multiple routes for the same application.

  • template: This signifies the actual configuration for the route. There are three parts to this configuration value. As we are supplying default parameters, if the values are not passed, it will take the default parameter values.

  • {controller=Employee}: The first value acts as the name of the controller and we use the Employee controller as the default controller when the controller value is not available in the URL.

  • {action=Index}: The Index action method...

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