ASP.Net MVC: Overview

Controllers

• C# classes that handle incoming request to the application
• Retrieves model data
• Specifies the View template that should return the response to the browser. If no particular view name is specifies, looks for a View with the same name as the Controller method name in the Views subfolder

Models

• C# classes that represent data of the application
• Contains declarative attributes to enforce business rules

Views

• Razor source files (.cshtml) that dynamically generate HTML responses

Development

• Choose IIS Express for the hosting environment
• Runs on top of ASP.NET. Caching, handlers, diagnostics... work the same as they do in ASP.NET
• URLs as APIs
• Dynamic language capabilities of CLR
• Convention over configuration
• Razor to produce clean HTML
• Sessionless Controllers
• High volume AJAX requests, better performance
• SEO improved redirects