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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

Bootstrap HTML elements


Bootstrap provides a host of different HTML elements that are styled and ready to use. These elements include the following:

  • Tables

  • Buttons

  • Forms

  • Images

Bootstrap tables

Bootstrap provides default styling for HTML tables with a few options to customize their layouts and behaviors. The default ASP.NET MVC scaffolding automatically adds the .table class name to the table element when generating a List view.

Enabling MVC Scaffolding

In the previous chapter, we created an empty ASP.NET Core project. In order to enable the built-in Visual Studio Scaffolding and because the new ASP.NET's approach is to only add the dependencies you need, we have to manually add the required dependencies to the project by completing the following tasks:

  1. Open the project you created in Chapter 1, Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Bootstrap 4, in Visual Studio.

  2. Locate the project.json file in the project's root folder and double-click it to edit.

  3. Add or update the following dependencies to the dependencies...