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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

Cascading dropdowns


You can add drop-down menus to almost any Bootstrap component using the dropdown plugin. A cascading drop-down menu is a drop-down menu that updates its data based on a value selected in another drop-down menu. To add cascading drop-down menus, perform the following steps:

  1. Inside Visual Studio, add a new controller called DropdownController.cs to your Controllers folder.

  2. In the Index action, add the following code, which will create a list of managers and load a list of reporting employees for the selected manager:

            public IActionResult Index(int id = 2) 
            { 
                var managers = new List<EmployeeModel>(); 
                var vicePresident = new EmployeeModel { Id = 2, Name = "Andrew 
                Fuller", JobTitle = "Vice President, Sales", ReportsTo = null }; 
                var salesManager = new EmployeeModel { Id = 5, Name = 
                "Steven Buchanan", JobTitle = "Sales Manager", ReportsTo = null }; 
           ...