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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating our own model binder


In this recipe, you will learn what a model binder is, and how to use it.

Getting ready

We will create an ASP.NET Core MVC Web Application template by going to File | New | Project | AspNet Core Web Application.

How to do it...

  1. First, let's add the AutoMapper dependency to project.json.
  2. After that, we will create the ProductRepository with fake data. Our HomeController controller class will consume the data from this repository. The objects consumed from the repository will be ProductDto objects, but we will use them only to transport data between the repository and the controller:
public class ProductDataStore
{
  public static ProductDataStore Current { get; } = new ProductDataStore();
  public List<ProductDto> Products { get; set; }
  public ProductDataStore()
  {
    Products = new List<ProductDto>()
    {
      new ProductDto { Id = 1, Name = "Laptop" },
      new ProductDto { Id = 2, Name = "Phone" },
      new ProductDto { Id = 3, Name = "Desktop...