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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
Book Image

Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By: Pieter van der Westhuizen

Overview of this book

One of the leading open source frontend frameworks, Bootstrap has undergone a significant change and introduced several features that make designing compelling, next-generation UIs much simpler. Integrating Bootstrap with 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. After a primer on the fundamentals of Bootstrap, you will learn your way around and create a new ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio. You will move on to learn about the 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 guides you through building an ASP.NET MVC website using Bootstrap, utilizing layout and user-interface components. At the end of this book, you will find some valuable tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Bootstrap-integrated and ASP.NET MVC-integrated website.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Bootstrap images


Images can be made responsive by setting their class attribute to .img-fluid. This will scale the image in relation to its parent element by setting its maximum width to 100% and height to auto.

You also have the option to shape images with either rounded corners, circles, or with an outer border. This is accomplished by setting the <img> element's class to one of the following Bootstrap classes:

  • img-rounded

  • img-circle

  • img-thumbnail

In the following image, we've displayed a list of employees, and their pictures. The list of employees could be retrieved from a database and passed to the view:

The code that achieves the preceding result, which can be viewed in the accompanying sample project for this chapter, is as follows:

@model IEnumerable<Chapter2.Models.EmployeeViewModel> 
<div class="container"> 
    <h2>Employees</h2> 
 
    <div class="row"> 
        @foreach (var item in Model) 
        { 
          ...