ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS

  • 6h 39m
  • Lee Naylor
  • Apress
  • 2016

This book will teach readers how to build and deploy a fully working example retail website using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework technologies and recommendations. This book contains several solutions to real world issues that developers will frequently encounter.

Whether you are a novice developer or an experienced .NET developer wishing to learn more about MVC and Entity Framework, author Lee Naylor will teach you how to develop a detailed database driven example website using Microsoft ASP.NET and Entity Framework Code First with fully explained code examples including:

  • Filtering and Searching Related Data using Linq
  • Using code first migrations to automatically update the database plus seeding data from code
  • How to use Visual Studio Scaffolding views and controllers
  • Manage CRUD operations including model binding as recommended by Microsoft and dealing with cascading deletions correctly
  • Input and data validation using Attributes
  • Sorting and paging through data and routing for friendly URL formats
  • Authorization and Authentication using Microsoft Identity v2 by making use of Microsoft example code including correct use of redirection after login and registration
  • Advanced techniques including managing data concurrency conflicts and using two database contexts
  • Asynchronous database access and paging
  • Azure deployment using Code First Migrations, remote debugging and viewing/editing your remote data
  • CSS Styling including animation and media queries

What You Will Learn:

  • Get up and running quickly with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework building a complex web site to display and manage several related entities
  • How to integrate Identity code into a project
  • Advanced topics including: Asynchronous database access and managing data conflicts
  • Working with Microsoft Azure including remote debugging and database access
  • CSS skills including animations and media queries for use with tablet or mobile/cell phone devices

About the Author

Lee Naylor has fifteen years experience as a software engineer with experience in Finance (Banking and Accounting), Retail, Automotive and Gaming/Gambling. His current areas of expertise are ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Front End Development with CSS, JavaScript and JQuery. In the past he has worked with several technologies including Classic ASP, VB, Access, Java, Oracle, Unix and search engine software such as Google Search Appliances and Autonomy/Verity. He is also experienced in Project and Team Management, mentoring/teaching others and understand all aspects of Software Projects from proposals and budgeting through analysis, estimations, planning, development, testing, UAT, and release management.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Building a Basic MVC Web Site
  • Creating Views, Controllers, and a Database from Model Classes
  • Searching, Advanced Filtering, and View Models
  • More Advanced Data Management
  • Sorting, Paging, and Routing
  • Managing Product Images—Many-to-Many Relationships
  • Authentication and Authorization Using ASP.NET Identity
  • Creating a Shopping Basket
  • Checkout—Creating and Viewing Orders
  • Advanced Scenarios and Common Workarounds
  • Using Entity Framework Code First with an Existing Database
  • Introduction to ASP.NET Core v1.0 (MVC6 and EF 7)
  • Deploying to Azure
  • Restyling the Web Site—An Introduction
  • Styling the Home Page
  • Styling Forms, Grid Layouts, and Tables
  • Advanced CSS
  • Responsive Web Sites—Styling for Mobile/Cell and Tablet Sized Devices
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