Defining web user interfaces with Razor views
Let’s review how we can build the user interface of a web page in a modern ASP.NET Core MVC website.
Understanding Razor views
In MVC, the V stands for view. The responsibility of a view is to transform a model into HTML or other formats.
There are multiple view engines that could be used to do this. The default view engine is called Razor, and it uses the @ symbol to indicate server-side code execution.
Let’s review the home page view and how it uses a shared layout:
- In the
Views/Homefolder, open theIndex.cshtmlfile and note the block of C# code wrapped in@{ }. This will execute first and can be used to store data that needs to be passed into a shared layout file, like the title of the web page, as shown in the following code:@{ ViewData["Title"] = "Home Page"; } - Note the static HTML content in the
<div>element that uses Bootstrap classes...