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Getting Started with Knockout.js for .NET Developers

By : Andrey Ankshin
Book Image

Getting Started with Knockout.js for .NET Developers

By: Andrey Ankshin

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Getting Started with Knockout.js for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an application without Knockout.js


In this section, we will create a very simple ASP.NET MVC application with step by step instructions. We will use Visual Studio Express 2013 with Update 3 for Web (you can download for free it from the official site, http://www.visualstudio.com/), .NET Framework 4.5, and ASP.NET MVC 4 for this purpose, but you can use older or newer versions; the difference will be small.

The minimum requirements for this chapter are Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, and ASP.NET MVC 3.

Let's develop an application to store information about the home library. The application will allow users to manage their book lists, including standard Create-Read-Update-Delete (CRUD) operations (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete for more information). It should be noted that we will develop a study application; it shouldn't be considered a production-ready code. You will not find any interactions with a database, error handling, data validation...