* Added ViewComponentFeture and ViewComponentFeatureProvider to perform view component discovery.
* Changed view component discovery to use application parts.
* Changed ViewComponentDescriptorProvider to make use of Application parts.
* Added AddViewComponentsAsServices method on IMvcBuilder that performs view component
discovery through the ApplicationPartManager and registers those view components as
services in the service collection. Assemblies should be added to the ApplicationPartManager
in order to discover view components in them in them.
* Added ControllerFeature and ControllerFeatureProvider to perform controller discovery.
* Changed controller discovery to use application parts.
* Changed ControllerActionDescriptorProvider to make use of Application parts.
* Simplified AddControllerAsServices to not accept any parameter and perform
controller discovery through the ApplicationPartManager in the IMvcBuilder
and IMvcCoreBuilder. Assemblies should be added to the ApplicationPartManager
in order to discover controllers in them.
* Introduce ControllerAttribute and use it to mark base classes as controllers.
* Changed rules for controller discovery to:
* All controller types must be public, concrete, non open generic types.
* NotController attribute is not applied to any type oif the hierarchy.
* The type name ends with controller.
* Controller attribute is applied to the type or to one of its ancestors.
* Added a Release method to IControllerActivator
* Changed Create in IControllerActivator to take in a ControllerActionContext
* Move the check to determine if a controller can be instantiated into the controller activator.
* Move logic for disposing controllers into the controller activator and make release on the
controller factory delegate into the activator.
* Changed release methods to take in a controller context.
Ryan Nowak
mnltejaswini
jacalvar
Doug Bunting
Ajay Bhargav Baaskaran
N. Taylor Mullen