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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
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Preface

Adding charts to views


By adding charts to your views, you can provide a rich experience for your users and the ability for them to receive an overall view of important information about the system.

There are a number of options when it comes to adding charts and graphs to your project; some of the most popular charting components are as follows:

Adding Google Charts to views

Google provides a rich charting API, which is powerful, easy to use, and free. They also provide an interactive gallery that showcases their many varieties of available charts.

In order to add Google Charts to the Index view of the Home controller, complete the following steps:

  1. Inside the Visual Studio Solution Explorer, double-click the Index.cshtml file inside the Views\Home folder.

  2. Add a new Bootstrap row to the view, which will act as the container for the Google...