# ASP.NET Core MVC

ASP.NET Core is how .NET builds for the web. You will learn how the browser and server talk, then build your first MVC web app: controllers that answer requests, Razor views that turn a model into HTML, and forms that send data back.

Updated: November 3, 2026

## [Network Communication](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/csharp-network-communication)

1. [Network Communication in C#: an overview](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/network-communication-in-csharp-an-overview) (Novice): Programs talk to each other by sending messages over a network, even when both run on the same computer. Your C# app already does this with SQL Server; a browser does it with a web app.
2. [IP Addresses and Ports](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/network-communication-in-csharp-ip-addresses-and-ports) (Novice): An IP address finds the computer, and a port finds the program on it. Meet localhost, the ports the web uses, and the ports your own apps listen on.
3. [How to read a URL](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/network-communication-how-to-read-a-url) (Novice): A URL has five parts (protocol, domain name, port, path and query string), and each one tells the web server something about the request.
4. [Static Websites](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/network-communication-static-websites) (Apprentice): A static website is built from hand-written HTML files, so the path in a page's URL is the path to that file on the server.
5. [Request / Response](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/network-communication-request-response) (Apprentice): The browser sends a request and the server sends back one response, and the server does not remember earlier requests.

## [ASP.NET Core](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/aspnet-core)

1. [What is ASP.NET Core](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/aspnet-core-what-is-aspnet-core) (Novice): ASP.NET Core is .NET's framework for the web. It listens for requests, runs your C# to answer each one, and sends back a page built for that request.
2. [Creating an MVC Project](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/aspnet-core-creating-an-mvc-project) (Apprentice): Create an ASP.NET Core MVC project, run it in the browser, and find your way around its folders and Program.cs.

## [The MVC Pattern](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/the-mvc-pattern)

1. [The MVC Pattern in ASP.NET Core](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/mvc-pattern-in-aspnet-core) (Apprentice): MVC splits a web app into models that carry data, views that turn it into HTML, and controllers that answer requests. Follow one request through all three.

## [Controllers and Actions](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/controllers-and-actions)

1. [Controllers and Actions](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/controllers-and-actions) (Journeyman): A controller is a class whose public methods, its actions, answer requests. Learn how the default route picks one from the address, where parameters come from, and what an action can return.

## [Razor Views](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/razor-views)

1. [Passing a Model to a View](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/razor-views-passing-a-model-to-a-view) (Journeyman): An action hands its view a model with View(model); the view names the model's type with @model and reads it through Model. ViewData carries small extras, such as the page title.
2. [Razor Syntax and Tag Helpers](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/razor-views-razor-syntax-and-tag-helpers) (Journeyman): Mix C# into HTML with Razor's @ expressions, code blocks, if and foreach, and let tag helpers such as asp-action and asp-route-id write your links.

## [MVC Forms](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/mvc-forms)

1. [GET and POST Actions](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/mvc-forms-get-and-post-actions) (Journeyman): A search form sends a GET request with a query string; a form that saves data sends a POST. Pair a GET action that shows the form with a POST action that saves it, redirect afterward, and protect it with an anti-forgery token.
2. [Model Binding a Form](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/mvc-forms-model-binding-a-form) (Journeyman): ASP.NET Core fills an action's parameters, even a whole Product, from the request by matching names. asp-for writes inputs whose names match the model, and ModelState says when a value didn't fit.

## [Exercise: BooksPlus](https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/topics/exercise-booksplus)

1. [Exercise: BooksPlus](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/exercise-booksplus) (Journeyman): Turn a new ASP.NET Core MVC project into a small bookstore website for BooksPlus, with featured books, a list, details, search and a form that adds a book, and run tests that request every page.

Source: https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/csharp-full-stack-bootcamp/chapters/aspnet-core-mvc