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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

List groups


List groups are flexible components that either display simple lists of elements or can be combined with other elements to create complex lists with custom content. As an example, we'll create a sample search page that will display the search results in a Bootstrap list group.

Start by completing the following steps:

  1. Add a new controller called SearchController.cs to your project.

  2. Change the Index action to the following:

            public IActionResult Index(string query) 
            { 
                ViewBag.SearchQuery = query; 
                var products = GetProducts(); 
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(query)) 
                { 
                  var results = products.Where(p => p.Name.Contains(query)); 
                  return View(results); 
                } 
                return View(products); 
            } 
    
  3. The preceding code retrieves a list of all products using the GetProducts method. It will then filter the list of products if the...