The MVC Request Pipeline

1. What is the first station in the MVC request pipeline?

Controller creation Action result Routing Result execution

2. What does a routing problem commonly result in during debugging?

404 error with no breakpoint hit NullReferenceException in the view Exception during DI before action runs Unexpected JSON casing

3. In the middleware pipeline, why is the order of middleware important?

To define the route structure To establish controller actions To manage shared requests like authentication and logging To improve performance of the app

4. What symptom indicates a problem during the model binding phase of the MVC request pipeline?

View rendering fails The action never executes Dependencies cannot be resolved A parameter is always null

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