Summary

Congratulations! This chapter was a whirlwind of information, but we now have a basic understanding of the MVC pattern and how it relates to ASP.NET MVC 4. We learned about controllers and action methods and how to create them. We created a model, passed the model from the controller to the view, and wrote code that displayed that model. With the basics known, it's time for us to look at bigger and better things.

In the next chapter, we leverage the functionality of Entity Framework 5.0 to create a persistence layer for our application and return the information stored in the database. This persistence layer will be used as the basis for our models moving forward.