ControllerBase
ControllerBase is the ASP.NET Core MVC base class providing controller behavior and action-result helpers without view-specific functionality.
Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition
ControllerBase is the ASP.NET Core base class that provides controller behavior and helper methods for creating action results.
- How it is used
- Provides request features and action-result helpers for RESTful ASP.NET Core MVC controllers.
- How deep it goes
- Explains discovery, per-request properties, default return behavior, and explicit response helpers through controller actions; defers detailed validation treatment.
- Examples
- Uses product GET and POST actions, a missing-product request, and redirect actions tested with PowerShell commands.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch: create a ControllerBase-derived product controller and select explicit success, missing-resource, or redirect responses.
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ASP.NET Core in Action, 3e
The Controller base class is the ASP.NET Core MVC base class that provides controller infrastructure, including access to an IUrlHelper.
- How it is used
- Supports ASP.NET Core web API controllers that expose HTTP actions without returning Razor views.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the base class, helper methods, inheritance choice, routing, serialization, and basic success and error responses.
- Examples
- Demonstrates FruitController, a fruit collection, GET routing, JSON serialization, and NotFound handling.
- What you can do after
- Build a small web API controller that returns serialized data and produces an appropriate error result.
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Related concepts
- controllerincludes · A controller is a software component or architectural role that receives inputs or requests and coordinates their handling by other parts of an application.
- result resourceproduces · An action result is an abstraction representing the outcome or response produced by an API action, including a typed value or HTTP response.
- ViewBagused by · ViewBag is a dynamic ASP.NET Core MVC property bag for passing unstructured data from a controller or view component to a view.
- View methodhas part · A View method is an MVC controller method that creates a result for rendering a view, typically selecting the view from the action context.
- IUrlHelperproduces · IUrlHelper is an ASP.NET Core interface for generating URLs from routing information for application actions and endpoints.
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