The entire ASP.NET MVC architecture is based on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and in addition uses LINQ to SQL Server.
What is a Model?

1. MVC model is basically a C# or VB.NET class
2. A model is accessible by both controller and view
3. A model can be used to pass data from Controller to view
4. A view can use model to display data in page.

What is a View?

1. View is an ASPX page without having a code behind file
2. All page specific HTML generation and formatting can be done inside view
3. One can use Inline code (server tags ) to develop dynamic pages
4. A request to view (ASPX page) can be made only from a controller’s action method

What is a Controller?

• Controller is basically a C# or VB.NET class which inherits system.mvc.controller
• Controller is a heart of the entire MVC architecture
• Inside Controller’s class action methods can be implemented which are responsible for responding to browser OR calling views.
• Controller can access and use model class to pass data to views
• Controller uses ViewData to pass any data to view

MVC File Structure & File Naming Standards
MVC uses a standard directory structure and file naming standards which are a very important part of MVC application development.
Inside the ROOT directory of the application, there must be 3 directories each for model, view and Controller.
Apart from 3 directories, there must have a Global.asax file in root folder, and a web.config like a traditional ASP.NET application.

• Root [directory]
• Controller [directory]
• Controller CS files
• Models [directory]
• Model CS files
• Views [directory]
• View aspx/ascx files
• Global.asax
• Web.config

Browser Request (Step 1)
Browser request happens with a specific URL. Let’s assume that the user enters URL like: [xyz.com]/home/index/
Job of Global.asax – MVC routing (Step 2)
The specified URL will first get parsed via application_start() method inside Global.asax file. From the requested URL, it will parse the Controller, Action and ID.
So for [xyz.com]/home/index/:
Controller = home
Action = index()
ID = empty — we have not specified ID in [xyz.com]/home/index/, so it will consider as empty string
Controller and Action methods (Step 3)
MVC now finds the home controller class in controller directory. A controller class contains different action methods,
There can be more than one action method, but MVC will only invoke the action method which has been parsed from the URL, its index() in our case.
So something like: homeController.index() will happen inside MVC controller class.
Invoking action method can return plain text string OR rendered HTML by using view.
Call to View (Step 4)
Invoking view will return view(). A call to view will access the particular ASPX page inside the view directory and generate the rendered HTML from the ASPX and will respond back to the browser.
In our case, controller was home and action was index(). So calling view() will return a rendered HTML from the ASPX page located at /views/home/index.aspx.