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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating and using POCO controllers


In this recipe, you will learn what POCO controllers are, and why we will use them.

Getting ready

We created an empty web application with VS 2017.

How to do it...

POCO controllers are simple classes decorated with two attributes:

  • The [Controller] attribute, for the class itself, or its base class
  • A routing attribute, defining its route in the application

They don't inherit from the Controller class, so they will not be able to return any MVC or WebAPI result as a view, an HttpStatus code, or any type inheriting from IActionResult.

We can place them anywhere in the application, at the root of the project, or in a folder named POCOController. In this exercise, we'll create a class and make it a controller by adding the Controller attribute on top of it, by following the given steps:

  1. We'll add Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc Nuget package to project:
"Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "2.0.0"
  1. We will add the MVC service, and use it in Startup.cs:
public class Startup
{
  public void...