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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

By: Pieter van der Westhuizen

Overview of this book

<p>Bootstrap, a leading open source frontend framework, takes care of typography, form layouts, and user interface components, allowing a developer to focus on writing code. Integrating ASP.NET's powerful components can further enhance its capabilities. This book guides you through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC website from scratch using Bootstrap.</p> <p>You will learn about various Bootstrap components as well as techniques to include them in your own projects. The book includes practical examples to show you how to use open source plugins with Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC and will guide you through building a website using Bootstrap, utilizing layout and user interface components. In the process, you will also learn to build HTML helpers and T4 templates as well as how to use the jQuery DataTables plugin. At the end of this book, you will find some valuable tips and tricks, which will help you in getting the most out of your Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC integrated website.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

List groups


List groups are flexible components that either display simple lists of elements or can be combined with other elements to create complex lists with custom content. Our search will redirect us to the SearchProductsResult view when the user searches for products. This view uses a list group to display the product items found. The method that retrieves the products from the database is as follows:

public ActionResult SearchProductsResult(string query)
{
    ViewBag.SearchQuery = query;
    var results = _context.Products.Where(p => p.ProductName.Contains(query)).ToList();
    return View(results);
}

The Razor markup for the view represents the following:

@model IEnumerable<Northwind.Data.Models.Product>
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Product Search Results";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}
<div class="container">
    <div class="page-header">
        <h1>Product Results <small>Results for your search term: "@ViewBag.SearchQuery"</small...