ASP.NET MVC Basics Course (How To)

ASP.NET MVC is a popular server-side framework developed by Microsoft that is used to build dynamic websites. In this course, you'll learn about the basics of ASP.NET MVC while we build a comic book gallery website using Visual Studio Community. Along the way, you'll learn how to create a new project, add controllers and views, model data, and create repositories.

What you'll learn

• Creating a Project Using Visual Studio Community
• Adding Controllers and Views
• URL Routing
• Data Modeling and Repositories
• Creating List and Detail Pages

Project Setup

We'll start with an overview of the ASP.NET MVC framework and then learn how to create a project using Visual Studio Community. We'll also learn how to run our website so that we can preview it in a browser.

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• Introduction

  3:01

• What is ASP.NET MVC?

  4:51

• ASP.NET MVC Review

  5 questions

• Creating a GitHub Repo

  2:58

• Creating a Project Using Visual Studio

  5:13

• Running Our Website

  2:00

• Section Review

  5 questions

Controllers

We'll learn how to add a controller to our website. Along the way, we'll take a look at URL routing and the important role that it plays in an MVC website.

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• Adding a Controller

  4:29

• Adding an Action to a Controller

  3:16

• Creating a Controller

  2 objectives

• Overview of URL Routing

  3:48

• URL Routing Review

  5 questions

• Using Action Result Types

  7:31

• Using Action Result Types

  1 objective

• Section Review

  5 questions

Views

We'll learn how to add a view to our website. We'll also take a first look at the Razor syntax and update the design of our website.

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• Adding a View

  4:03

• Adding a View Review

  5 questions

• Using Razor for View Layout

  5:30

• Using the Razor Syntax

  1 objective

• Displaying a List with Razor

  4:16

• Displaying a List of Values

  1 objective

• Setting Data in the Controller

  5:51

• Using ViewBag

  2 objectives

• Adding Design Files

  4:41

• View Layouts

  5:42

• Section Review

  5 questions

Modeling and Presenting Data

We'll learn how to model data using C# classes and present that data in a strongly typed view. We'll also learn about repositories and how they improve the overall design of our website.

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• Adding a Data Model

  4:51

• Updating the Data Model

  2:39

• Creating a Data Model

  2 objectives

• Using Strongly Typed Views

  6:46

• Using Strongly Typed Views

  2 objectives

• Improving Our View Layout

  7:45

• Using Razor to Render Boolean Values

  1 objective

• Applying Software Design Principles

  3:26

• Software Design Principles Review

  5 questions

• Adding the Repository

  7:55

• Adding Repository Methods

  2 objectives

• Updating the Controller

  7:16

• Optional URL Parameters Review

  5 questions

• Using the Visual Studio Debugger

  7:07

• Validating a Bug Fix with the Debugger

  5:23

• Section Review

  5 questions

Adding a List Page

We'll learn how to add a list page to our website. Along the way, we'll also learn how to update our default route and create links between the pages in our website.

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• Adding a List Controller and View

  4:03

• Finishing the List View

  4:55

• Creating a List View

  1 objective

• Updating the Default Route

  6:07

• URL Routing Configuration Review

  5 questions

• Linking Between Views

  7:01

• Creating Hyperlinks

  1 objective

• Improving Navigation

  5:45

• Wrap Up

  2:49

• Section Review

  5 questions