#ASP.NET MVC: Basic controller

In an MVC application, a URL translates to the code you wish to execute. For example, the URL http://example.com/greetings/hello/ maps to the method Hello() in the class GreetingsController.

The method then returns a string and this is the body of the HTTP response message. So, if Hello() says something like return "Hello!", the browser will show the text Hello!.

##Exploring the code

The interesting stuff for this example is in Controllers\GreetingsController.cs. All the other files are part of the default project template.

If you want to try and implement a basic controller yourself, you can check out the start-branch, which is the starting point for this example.