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One of the most confusing aspect of MVC and Web API is the subject of routing. MVC routing looks and feels more logical to most developers as compared to the Web API routing. The reason behind this is that Web API depends on the HTTP verb to match the action being called. It follows a set of conventions which automatically fires a particular action based on the endpoint being hit. This throws of most of us because we are in the habit of calling methods by name.

Hopefully this post will give you a head start at what is the simplest or the default way in which Web API manages its routing based on conventions. I will show all the concepts using simple boiler plate code, don’t focus on the logic inside the Action(method). 

If you are a developer and worked on DNN you may have faced this error when you used a 32 bit dll in DNN web site. 

Our client off late reported unusual user registration on their DNN websites. They experienced a peek in user registration. They asked for us to investigate the issue and eagerly obliged. It turned out that all registrations were taking place with unique emails and had address etc too. Soon it turned out to us that these are bots that are creating these users and then utilizing activity feed to share spam links. 

With the advent of MVC it is imperative for all programmers to understand the different ways this framework provides to share data from Controller to View. Each solution has its pros and cons. But my advice to you is stick to the method which is most comfortable to you and accepted by your team lead.

Some of the biggest advantages of ASP.NET MVC are that it is built on a solid tried and tested MVC architecture and the removal of view state concept. Added to that is the beautiful concept of separation of concern through Views and Controllers. Microsoft keeps on adding to this frame work and in a very short period of time it has reached its version 5. We look into some new features introduced in version 5 and version 5.1. This information has been gathered from Microsoft site and msdn.