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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

Creating HTML Helpers using static methods


The simplest way to create a helper in ASP.NET MVC used to be the @helper directive. Unfortunately, the @helper directive was removed from the new ASP.NET MVC Core, since it imposed too many restrictions on the other Razor features.

Fortunately, we're still able to create an HTML Helper using static method by completing 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, 
                    Secondary, 
                    Success, 
                    Info, 
                    Warning, 
                    Danger 
                } 
     
                public enum ButtonSize 
                { 
                    Large, 
                    Small, 
          ...