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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
Book Image

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

Creating helpers using static methods


The easiest alternative to creating helpers using the @helper syntax we mentioned earlier is to create static methods that simply return a string that contains an HTML markup.

In order to accomplish this, we need to complete the following steps:

  1. Create a new folder called Helpers inside the root folder of your project.

  2. Add a new class to this folder called Enums.cs. This file will contain all the enumerators for our project.

  3. Add the following code to the Enums.cs file:

    public class Enums
    {
        public enum ButtonStyle
        {
            Default,
            Primary,
            Success,
            Info,
            Warning,
            Danger,
            Link
        }
    
        public enum ButtonSize
        {
            Large,
            Small,
            ExtraSmall,
            Normal
        }
    }
  4. Create a new class called ButtonHelper.cs in the Helpers folder.

  5. Add a method called Button to the ButtonHelper class, and add the following code to it:

    public static MvcHtmlString Button(string caption, Enums.ButtonStyle...