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Project Structure — Complete Guide
Project Structure — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of ASP.NET Core MVC Tutorial on Toolliyo Academy.
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ASP.NET Core MVC Tutorial · Lesson 16 of 200
Project Structure
Getting Started ✓ → Core MVC → Data & Security → Production → Career
Beginner · 2 — Project Structure · ~6 min · Section 2: ASP.NET Core Basics & Hosting
What is this?
A new MVC project has folders for Controllers (C# request handlers), Views (Razor HTML), Models (classes), and wwwroot (CSS/JS/images). Program.cs starts the app and registers services.
Why should you care?
Knowing where files live saves hours. "Change the navbar" means Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml, not a random CSS file.
See it live — copy this example
Create an MVC project (dotnet new mvc), add the code, and run dotnet run.
ShopNest.Mvc/
Controllers/HomeController.cs
Views/Home/Index.cshtml
Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml
Models/ErrorViewModel.cs
wwwroot/css/site.css
Program.csRun Example »
This lesson uses terminal or setup steps. Run commands on your computer — the live editor appears on coding lessons.
What happened?
- Convention over configuration: ProductsController looks for views under Views/Products/.
- Shared holds layouts and partials used on every page.
Try it yourself
- Create a new file Views/Products/Index.cshtml with a heading.
- Add ProductsController with Index returning View().
- Visit /Products/Index and confirm the page loads.
- Change text or labels in the example and run again — watch the browser update.
- Break the code on purpose (remove a semicolon), read the error message, then fix it.
Remember
Controllers/, Views/, Models/, wwwroot/ are the four homes to memorize. Program.cs configures the pipeline and DI. Shared/_Layout.cshtml wraps every page.
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