Introduction - ASP.NET Core MVC

Modern web development offers many frameworks, but when the goal is to build structured, scalable, and search-engine-friendly web applications using .NET, ASP.NET Core MVC remains a powerful and reliable choice.

ASP.NET Core MVC is a web development framework within the .NET ecosystem that enables developers to create dynamic, server-rendered web applications using C#. Instead of relying entirely on client-side JavaScript to construct pages, this framework processes requests on the server and returns fully generated HTML to the browser.

What Exactly Is ASP.NET Core MVC?

At a high level, ASP.NET Core MVC is a server-side web application framework built on the ASP.NET Core platform. It is designed to help developers build structured, UI-driven web applications using a clean architectural approach.

• Model
• View
• Controller

It represents a design pattern used to organize application code into logical sections. Instead of mixing business logic, UI rendering, and request handling in one place, MVC separates responsibilities into distinct components. This makes applications easier to develop, test, and maintain.(We will explore each part in detail in the dedicated MVC Architecture topic.)

ASP.NET Core MVC follows this pattern while generating HTML on the server before sending it to the client browser. That means when a user requests a webpage, the server processes the logic and returns a fully constructed HTML document.

Unlike heavily client-side frameworks where the browser builds the UI dynamically using JavaScript, ASP.NET Core MVC delivers ready-to-render markup.