Question

Could someone explain ASP.NET Convention Based Naming and provide some examples if possible please

Answer 1

Convention-based naming is essentially a way to reduce the amount of explicit code you have to write by defining a set of convention mappings so that, for example, pages whose names match a certain format will be automatically looked for within a certain directory.

There’s an article here which has some examples (have a search for ‘Convention-based naming and the \Views directory structure‘) and another from the same series here.

There’s another, more concise example here: ASP.NET MVC: When convention really matters.

In that example, calling return View("NotFound"); from the DinnersController class will automatically look for a View called NotFound in the \Views\Dinners\ directory, without you needing to explicitly define that directory structure when you call View().

The convention in this instance determines the location of the View based on the name of the Controller.