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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

Adding different page views


The SB Admin template comes with a variety of different page styles, which can be used to build our own views. We'll create a custom view that displays two panels, one with a simple Bootstrap form and another one that displays an image, by completing the following steps:

  1. Add a new empty MVC 5 controller called FormsController to your project.

  2. Add a new empty view for the Index method of the controller and select the layout page we've created earlier as its layout page.

  3. Open the Index.cshtml file inside the Views\Forms folder.

  4. Add the following markup to the view:

    @{
        ViewBag.Title = "Index";
        Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
    }
    
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-12">
            <h1 class="page-header">Forms</h1>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-6">
            <div class="panel panel-primary">
                <div class="panel-heading">
                    Firs Panel with simple...