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# Associating a Standard Controller with a Visualforce Page

To associate a standard controller with a Visualforce page, use the `standardController` attribute on the `<apex:page>` tag and assign it the name of any Salesforce object that can be queried using the Lightning Platform API.

For example, to associate a page with the standard controller for a custom object named MyCustomObject, use the following markup:

<!-- otherprops: apex_page -->
```markup
<apex:page standardController="MyCustomObject__c">
</apex:page>
```

**note:** When you use the `standardController` attribute on the `<apex:page>` tag, you cannot use the `controller` attribute at the same time.