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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By : van der Westhuizen

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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

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By: 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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Bootstrap 4

1. Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Bootstrap 4

Files included in the Bootstrap distribution

CSS pre-processors

Creating an empty ASP.NET MVC site and adding Bootstrap manually

Adding the Bootstrap 4 files using Bower

Compiling the Bootstrap Sass files using Gulp

Installing Font Awesome

Creating a MVC Layout page

Summary

2. Using Bootstrap CSS and HTML Elements

2. Using Bootstrap CSS and HTML Elements

The Bootstrap grid system

Bootstrap HTML elements

Form layout and elements

Bootstrap images

Bootstrap figures

Summary

3. Using Bootstrap Components

3. Using Bootstrap Components

The Bootstrap navigation bar

List groups

Badges

Media object

Breadcrumbs

Pagination

Input groups

Button dropdowns

Alerts

Progress bars

Cards

Summary

4. Using Bootstrap JavaScript Components

4. Using Bootstrap JavaScript Components

Data attributes versus the programmatic API

Cascading dropdowns

Modal dialogs

Tabs

Tooltips

Popovers

The accordion/collapse component

The carousel component

Summary

5. Creating MVC Bootstrap Helper and Tag Helpers

5. Creating MVC Bootstrap Helper and Tag Helpers

Built-in HTML Helpers

Built-in Tag Helpers

The difference between HTML Helpers and Tag Helpers

Creating HTML Helpers using static methods

Creating helpers using extension methods

Creating self-closing helpers

Creating a Bootstrap button Tag Helper

Creating a Bootstrap Alert Tag Helper

Summary

6. Converting a Bootstrap HTML Template into a Usable ASP.NET MVC Project

6. Converting a Bootstrap HTML Template into a Usable ASP.NET MVC Project

Working with prebuilt HTML templates

Creating the ASP.NET MVC project

Creating the master layout

Adding a view for the home controller

Adding different page views

Adding charts to views

Summary

7. Using the jQuery DataTables Plugin with Bootstrap 4

7. Using the jQuery DataTables Plugin with Bootstrap 4

jQuery DataTables

Adding DataTables to your ASP.NET MVC project

Loading and displaying data in jQuery DataTables

DataTables plugins

DataTables extensions

Summary

8. Creating Bootstrap 4 ASP.NET MVC Sites Using Visual Studio Code

8. Creating Bootstrap 4 ASP.NET MVC Sites Using Visual Studio Code

What is Visual Studio Code?

Installing Visual Studio Code

Creating an empty ASP.NET project

Using Bower to add the Bootstrap 4 files

Using Gulp to compile the Bootstrap Sass files

Creating a MVC layout page

Summary

A. Bootstrap Resources

A. Bootstrap Resources

Themes

Add-ons

Editors and generators

Creating helpers using extension methods

If we want our helpers to behave in a manner similar to the built-in ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers, we need to create an extension method. Extension methods are a technique used to add new methods to an existing class.

Note

Extension methods are a very powerful and intuitive approach to add additional functionality to existing classes and can help you in many ways. You can read more about extension methods on MSDN at http://bit.ly/ExtMethods.

We'll create an extension method to the HtmlHelper class that is represented by a view's HTML property by completing the following steps:

Start by adding a new class file called ButtonExtensions.cs to the Helpers folder in the root of your project.
Change the class type to static. Extension methods need to be declared inside a static class.
Add a new method called BootstrapButton to the class. The first parameter of the method indicates which class the extension extends and must be preceded with the this keyword.
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