Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

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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.

Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition

Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewer

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

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

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

Using Bootstrap Components

Using Bootstrap Components

The Bootstrap navigation bar

Button dropdowns

Using Bootstrap JavaScript Components

Using Bootstrap JavaScript Components

Data attributes versus the programmatic API

Cascading dropdowns

The accordion/collapse component

The carousel component

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

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

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

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

Bootstrap Resources

Bootstrap Resources

Editors and generators

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Adding a view for the home controller

You need to create a view for the home controller's Index action in order to test the template. Complete the following steps to accomplish this:

Open the HomeController.cs file and, if the HomeController class does not already contain an Index action method, add it as shown here:
```
        public IActionResult Index() 
        { 
            return View(); 
        } 
```
Next, right-click on the Views\Home folder and Add | New Item... from the context menu.
Select MVC View Page from the list of project items, make sure the name is Index.cshtml, and click on Add:

Open the newly created Index.cshtml file and change its markup to the following:

        <p class="hidden-md-up"> 
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary-outline btn-sm" 
             data-toggle="offcanvas"><i class="fa fa-chevron-left"></i>         
        Menu</button> 
        </p> 
        <h1 class="display-1 hidden-xs-down"> 
        ...