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Mastering ABP Framework

By : Halil İbrahim Kalkan
Book Image

Mastering ABP Framework

By: Halil İbrahim Kalkan

Overview of this book

ABP Framework is a complete infrastructure for creating modern web applications by following software development best practices and conventions. With ABP's high-level framework and ecosystem, you can implement the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle and focus on your business code. Written by the creator of ABP Framework, this book will help you to gain a complete understanding of the framework and modern web application development techniques. With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you'll understand the requirements of a modern web solution and how ABP Framework makes it enjoyable to develop your own solutions. You'll discover the common requirements of enterprise web application development and explore the infrastructure provided by ABP. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with software development best practices for building maintainable and modular web solutions. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create a complete web solution that is easy to develop, maintain, and test.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
6
Part 2: Fundamentals of ABP Framework
11
Part 3: Implementing Domain–Driven Design
15
Part 4: User Interface and API Development
19
Part 5: Miscellaneous

Creating forms and implementing validation

ASP.NET Core provides a good infrastructure for preparing forms and submitting, validating, and processing them on the server side. However, it still requires writing some boilerplate and repeating code. ABP Framework simplifies working with forms by providing tag helpers and automating validation and localization wherever possible. Let's begin with how to render form elements using ABP's tag helpers.

Rendering form elements

The abp-input tag helper is used to render an appropriate HTML input element for a given property. It is better to show its usage in a complete example.

Let's assume that we need to build a form to create a new movie entity and have created a new Razor Page called CreateMovie.cshtml. First, let's look at the code-behind file:

public class CreateMovieModel : AbpPageModel
{
    [BindProperty]
    public MovieViewModel Movie { get; set; }
  ...