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Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

By : Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran
Book Image

Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

By: Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core MVC helps you build robust web applications using the Model-View-Controller design. This guide will help you in building applications which can be deployed on non-windows platforms such as Linux. In today’s age, it is crucial that you possess the ability to separate the programming and business logic, and this is exactly what ASP.NET Core MVC application will help you achieve. This version comes with a number of improvements that enable fast, TDD-friendly development to create sophisticated applications. You would also learn the fundamentals of Entity framework and on how to use the same in ASP.NET Core web applications. The book presents the fundamentals and philosophies of ASP.NET Core. Starting with an overview of the MVC pattern, we quickly dive into the aspects that you need to know to get started with ASP.NET. You will learn about the core architecture of model, view, and control. Integrating your application with Bootstrap, validating user input, interacting with databases, and deploying your application are some of the things that you will be able to execute with this fast-paced guide. The end of the book will test your knowledge as you build a fully working sample application using the skills you’ve learned throughout the book.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Building HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web API

HTML doctype


Bootstrap makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of HTML 5 doctype. By default, the view that you create in ASP.NET Core will have HTML 5 doctype only. So, we do not need to do anything regarding this.

 
<!DOCTYPE html> 
 
<html lang="en"> 
... 
</html> 

Let us make the following changes to our screen to make use of Bootstrap:

  • Apply the CSS class form-horizontal to the form.

  • For the label, input, and validation error spans use the CSS col-sm-2, col-sm-4, and col-sm-3 classes respectively

  • For labels, apply the CSS class control-label

  • For input HTML elements, the form-control CSS class is applied

  • For each of the form groups (containing the HTML elements such as label and input), apply the CSS class form-group

  • For all validation error messages, apply the text-danger CSS class so that they will be shown in red

  • Apply the table, table-bordered CSS class to style the table

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