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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

Chapter 8. Creating Bootstrap 4 ASP.NET MVC Sites Using Visual Studio Code

During their Build 2015 conference, Microsoft unveiled a new lightweight code editor for writing web and mobile apps called Visual Studio Code. This was a major step for Microsoft, since it marked the first time they offered developers a cross-platform code editor that works on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

With the significant redesign of ASP.NET, which made it an open source and cross-platform framework, developers are now able to create ASP.NET websites on Windows, Linux, and OS X. Visual Studio Code makes this a little bit easier.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is Visual Studio Code?

  • Installing Visual Studio Code

  • Scaffolding an empty ASP.NET project using Yeoman

  • Adding the Bootstrap 4 files using Bower

  • Compiling the Bootstrap Sass files using Gulp

  • Creating a layout file that references the Bootstrap files