We saw already the use of convention based routing and we saw Attribute Routing in the construction of an api controller and a restful controller. We will now take a closer look at the use of Attribute Routing and its benefits in contrast to convention based routing. What this post Read more…
Routing system Essentially the URL Routing system is used to map incoming requests to controller methods. The early routing of Asp.Net matched pretty exactly to the server folder structure. This works well for cgi style applications or aspx, where each file is its own response. But for MVC style applications it makes Read more…
Intro to AspNetCore MVC Controllers In MVC every http request is handled by a Controller or rather a action method. These controllers are implemented as simple C# classes contained in your application. The Controller that is utilized to handle the incoming request is choosen by the routing system as I Read more…
API controllers In the post about controllers we looked at how the http requests map to action methods in controllers to generate responses in HTML or any other ViewResult compliant format. An API controller on the other hand simply let you get access to application data. The general structure resembles Read more…