Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4

CHAPTER 4

Controllers

In this chapter you will see that in the world of the MVC pattern, controllers process incoming HTTP requests from users. Each HTTP request is handled by a specific controller. ASP.NET MVC implements the concept of controllers with .NET classes that have methods to process such requests. The methods in a controller are called action methods because they return an object of type ActionResult.

The processing of a request starts with an element called the routing engine, which maps the request to a controller and a method (this chapter provides only a brief introduction to routing; Chapter 10 examines it in more detail). After ...