Running a copy of a .cshtml file gives a 404

Question

I\'ve created a copy(right-click Copy & Paste) of my Home page in a VS2013 ASP.NET MVC5 project and named it indexL10. When I try to run it, I get the following error:

Answer 1

*.cshtml files are not like *.aspx files. They're not directly exposed. The URL is translated by the framework into a route. That route points to a particular controller and a particular action in that controller, which is then called by the framework. The action returns an ActionResult, which in MVC is most typically satisfied via a ViewResult. Conventions in the framework come into play to look for a view to render with the same name as the action that was called, but this is not strictly required and can be overridden. Regardless, the view (your *.cshtml file) is rendered by Razor utilizing data provided by the action and returned as a response to the client.