Setting up an ASP.NET Core MVC website

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern allows a clean separation between technical concerns, as shown in the following list:

• Models: Classes that represent the data entities and view models used on the website.
• Views: Razor files, that is, .cshtml files, that render data in view models into HTML web pages. Blazor uses the .razor file extension, but do not confuse them with Razor files!
• Controllers: Classes that execute code when an HTTP request arrives at the web server. The controller methods usually create a view model that may contain entity models, and pass it to a view to generate an HTTP response to send back to the web browser or an other client.

Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC website

You will use a project template to create an ASP.NET Core MVC website project that has a local database for authenticating and authorizing users. Visual Studio 2022 defaults to using SQL Server LocalDB for the accounts...