In my last blog post I walked through a simple example of how to implement a /Products URL that renders a list of product categories:

Below is a simple ProductsController implementation that implements the /Products URL above.  It retrieves a list of product categories from a database, and then passes them off to a view file to render an appropriate HTML response back to the browser:

Here is what the Index.cshtml view file (implemented using Razor) looks like:

The above view file does not yet use a layout page – which means that as we add additional URLs and pages to the site we’ll end up duplicating our core site layout in multiple places.  Using a layout will allow us to avoid this duplication and make it much easier to manage our site design going forward.  Let’s update our sample to use one now.