The Label helper returns a <label/> element using the string parameter to determine the rendered text and for attribute value. A different overload of the helper enables you to independently set the for attribute and the text. In the preceding code, the call to Html.Label(“GenreId”) produces the following HTML: <label… Continue reading
The TextBox helper renders an input tag with the type attribute set to text. You commonly use the TextBox helper to accept free-form input from a user. For example, the call to: @Html.TextBox(“Title”, Model.Title) results in: <input id=”Title” name=”Title” type=”text” value=”For Those About To Rock We Salute You” /> Just… Continue reading
The ValidationSummary helper displays an unordered list of all validation errors in the ModelState dictionary. The Boolean parameter you are using (with a value of true) is telling the helper to exclude property-level errors. In other words, you are telling the summary to display only the errors in ModelState associated… Continue reading
You’ve used the BeginForm helper previously. The version of BeginForm in the preceding code, with no parameters, sends an HTTP POST to the current URL, so if the view is a response to /StoreManager/Edit/52, the opening form tag will look like the following: <form action=”/StoreManager/Edit/52″ method=”post”> POST is the ideal… Continue reading
HTML helpers are methods you can invoke on the Html property of a view. You also have access to URL helpers (via the Url property), and AJAX helpers (via the Ajax property). All these helpers have the same goal: to make views easy to author. The URL helper is also… Continue reading
Scaffolding in ASP.NET MVC can generate the boilerplate code you need for create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) functionality in an application. The scaffolding templates can examine the type definition for a model (such as the Album class you’ve created), and then generate a controller and the controller’s associated views…. Continue reading
The Razor view engine was introduced with ASP.NET MVC 3 and is the default view engine moving forward. This chapter focuses on Razor and does not cover the Webforms view engine. Razor is the response to one of the most requested suggestions received by the ASP.NET MVC feature team —… Continue reading
Once you select a type, you can also choose a scaffold template. These templates use the Visual Studio T4 templating system to generate a view based on the model type selected and are listed in Table. SCAFFOLD DESCRIPTION Empty Creates an empty view. Only the model type is specified using… Continue reading
When you create a new ASP.NET MVC application with Visual Studio, it automatically adds several fi les and directories to the project. ASP.NET MVC projects created with the Internet application template have eight top-level directories. DIRECTORY PURPOSE /Controllers Where you put Controller classes that handle URL requests /Models Where you… Continue reading
While creating a new MVC 4 application, you’ll be presented with an intermediate dialog with some MVC-specifi c options for how the project should be created, as shown in Below Figure. The options you select from this dialog can set up a lot of the infrastructure for your application, from… Continue reading