This course introduces ASP.NET developers, specifically MVC developers, to the life cycle of an HTTP request as it travels through the ASP.NET platform and the MVC framework.

The course will educate developers about the major steps in the Request Life Cycle, as well as how to extend and customize them when appropriate. The focus of the course will not be on MVC coding and how to build applications, but rather on the relationships between the components that comprise the request pipeline.

The inner workings of the MVC framework will also be discussed where applicable, such as Controller Factories, Dependency Resolvers, and Result Execution.
Author Name: Alex Wolf
Author Description:
Alex Wolf works as a .NET and Azure Content Developer at Microsoft, and is passionate about learning and teaching software development. He has over a decade of experience and multiple certifications in the .NET ecosystem and related technologies. He is also highly engaged in DevOps and Cloud technologies to improve development workflows and infrastructure. Alex has worked for companies of nearly every size, ranging from small start-ups to very large enterprises. He also maintains a hobbyist … more

Table of Contents

• Overview
  13mins
• The Application and Request Life Cycle Events
  26mins
• Working with Routing, HttpHandlers, and HttpModules
  26mins
• Understanding Controller Initialization
  28mins
• Action Method Execution
  34mins
• Exploring Action Results and the View Engine
  25mins