Action results: deriving from the Controller base class, modifying an…

… action to return IActionResult, creating and instantiating a Restaurant model, and returning the model instance wrapped in a new ObjectResult

OdeToFoodRider/OdeToFoodRider/Controllers/HomeController.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using OdeToFoodRider.Models;
+
 namespace OdeToFoodRider.Controllers
 {
-    public class HomeController
+    public class HomeController : Controller
     {
-        public string Index()
+        public IActionResult Index()
         {
-            return "Hello from Rider's Home controller!";
+            var model = new Restaurant() {Id = 1, Name = "Scott's Pizza Place"};
+
+            return new ObjectResult(model);
         }
     }
 }

OdeToFoodRider/OdeToFoodRider/Models/Restaurant.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+namespace OdeToFoodRider.Models
+{
+    public class Restaurant
+    {
+        public int Id { get; set; }
+        public string Name { get; set; }
+    }
+}

OdeToFoodVisualStudio/OdeToFoodVisualStudio/Controllers/HomeController.cs

@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using OdeToFoodVisualStudio.Models;
 
 namespace OdeToFoodVisualStudio.Controllers
 {
-    public class HomeController
+    public class HomeController : Controller
     {
-        public string Index()
+        public IActionResult Index()
         {
-            return "Hello from Visual Studio's Home controller";
+            var model = new Restaurant { Id = 1, Name = "Scott's Pizza Place" };
+
+            return new ObjectResult(model);
+
+            // VSRD: Visual Studio doesn't have a quick action to change return type if you try to return something that doesn't match it
+            // VSRD: Visual Studio's take on Extend/Shrink Selection (Shift+Alt+Plus/Minus) can't extend to a string literal except quotes,
+            // making it non-trivial to paste text into string literals - it can only extend to the whole string literal
+            //return Content("Hello from Visual Studio's Home controller");
+
 
         }
     }

OdeToFoodVisualStudio/OdeToFoodVisualStudio/Models/Restaurant.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace OdeToFoodVisualStudio.Models
+{
+    public class Restaurant
+    {
+        public int Id { get; set; }
+        public string Name { get; set; }
+    }
+}