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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

The difference between HTML Helpers and Tag Helpers


Tag Helpers are attached to HTML elements inside your Razor views and can help you write markup that is both cleaner and easier to read than the traditional HTML Helpers. HTML Helpers, on the other hand, are invoked as methods that are mixed with HTML inside your Razor views.

Visual Studio also provides minimum IntelliSense support when writing HTML Helpers, as the parameters for the HTML Helper methods are all strings. For example, in the following code, the LabelFor and TextBoxFor HTML Helper methods are used to create a label and textbox for a model property:

<div class="form-group"> 
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Email, new { @class = "col-md-2 control-label" }) 
    <div class="col-md-10"> 
        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Email, new { @class = "form-control" }) 
    </div> 
</div> 

Because the class is a reserved word in C#, you will notice in the preceding code how you have to append the @ sign in order to...