Exploring ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
ASP.NET Core Razor Pages allow a developer to easily mix C# code statements with HTML markup to make the generated web page dynamic. That is why they use the .cshtml file extension.
By convention, ASP.NET Core looks for Razor Pages in a folder named Pages.
Enabling Razor Pages
You will now copy and change the static HTML page into a dynamic Razor Page, and then add and enable the Razor Pages service:
- In the
Northwind.Webproject folder, create a folder namedPages. - Copy the
index.htmlfile into thePagesfolder. - For the file in the
Pagesfolder, rename the file extension from.htmlto.cshtml. - Remove the
<h2>element that says that this is a static HTML page. - In
Startup.cs, in theConfigureServicesmethod, add a statement to add ASP.NET Core Razor Pages and its related services, such as model binding, authorization, anti-forgery, views, and tag helpers, to the builder, as shown in the following...