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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

By : Pieter van der Westhuizen
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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.

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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition
Pieter van der Westhuizen
Sep, 2016 | 186 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition
Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Bootstrap 4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bootstrap Resources
Bootstrap Resources
Themes
Add-ons
Editors and generators

About the Reviewer

Dony Perdana is an enthusiast and full-stack .NET developer from Indonesia. He has been involved with various banking project solutions for the past 5 years, especially on .NET server side web technologies such as ASP Web API, ASP MVC, ASP Core 1.0, and ServiceStack. He is also proficient with frontend web development, including various JavaScript frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS, BackboneJS, KnockoutJS, and ReactJS).

He developed many applications, including content management systems, real-time and scheduler application, social media apps, web service-based applications.

He has strongly believes that design-pattern practices and agile development can tackle any problem and increase team productivity in software development.

In his spare time, he participates in many learning resources such as reading books, chess, and going to conferences and meetups to keep up with the latest technologies and methodologies for programming. He also helps people on Stack Overflow and contributes to opensource projects on GitHub repositories.

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