ASP.NET MVC Controller Lifecycle

Question

It\'s my understanding that the constructor for a controller is not called during each web request. Assuming this is true, what is the lifecycle of a controller? Is is \"con

Answer 1

I'm afraid, your understanding is wrong. A controller (which should be a very thin and lightweight class and must not have any session-outliving state) is actually constructed on the fly for each and every web request. How else could a controller instance be specific to a certain view?

So there is no such thing as a "lifecycle" (other than that of the request)...