Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC

✍ Scribed by Pieter van der Westhuizen

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 180
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Combine the power of ASP.NET Core with Bootstrap 4 to build elegant, responsive web apps

About This Book

• Updated for Bootstrap 4 and ASP.Net MVC 6, this book shows how to take advantage of the latest new features introduced in both of these industry-leading frameworks
• Build responsive, mobile-ready apps by combining the power of ASP.NET MVC with Bootstrap
• Grasp the intricacies of Bootstrap and how to use it with ASP.NET MVC
• Build your own tools and helpers to assist you in creating ASP.NET MVC Bootstrap sites easily and quickly
• Master the use of Bootstrap components and plugins with ASP.NET MVC

Who This Book Is For

If you are an ASP.NET MVC developer and would like to know how to incorporate Bootstrap into your projects, then this book is invaluable to you. Developers with entry-level experience of ASP.NET MVC development and limited experience with Bootstrap will also benefit from this book.

What You Will Learn

• Create a new ASP.NET MVC project that uses Bootstrap for its styling and learn how to include external libraries using the new package managers
• Learn to use the various Bootstrap CSS and HTML elements, and how to use the new Bootstrap 4 grid layout system
• Explore the different input groups and implement alerts, progress bars, and badges
• Explore JavaScript components by illustrating and walking through the process of using JavaScript/jQuery to add interactivity to Twitter Bootstrap components
• Build your own ASP.NET MVC helpers and tag helpers to reduce the amount of HTML needed to generate Bootstrap elements
• Convert a Bootstrap HTML template into a usable ASP.NET MVC project
• Use the jQuery DataTables plugin with Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This is a compact, step-by-step guide that focuses on combining the power of Bootstrap with ASP.Net MVC to build next-generation web apps. With clear instructions, this book will show how to build a complete ASP.Net MVC-integrated web app from scratch using Bootstrap. It will also cover several tricks for integrating Bootstrap and ASP.Net MVC, and getting the most out of both frameworks.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Bootstrap 4
Files included in the Bootstrap distribution
Bootstrap style sheets
Bootstrap JavaScript files
Bootstrap fonts/icons
Bootstrap source files
CSS pre-processors
Creating an empty ASP.NET MVC site and adding Bootstrap manually
Enabling MVC and static files
Creating the default route controller and view
Adding the Bootstrap 4 files using Bower
Compiling the Bootstrap Sass files using Gulp
Adding Gulp npm packages
Enabling Gulp-Sass compilation
Running Gulp tasks
Binding Gulp tasks to Visual Studio events
Installing Font Awesome
Creating a MVC Layout page
Content Delivery Networks
Summary
Chapter 2: Using Bootstrap CSS and HTML Elements
The Bootstrap grid system
Bootstrap Grid components
Containers
Rows
Columns
Bootstrap HTML elements
Bootstrap tables
Enabling MVC Scaffolding
Scaffolding an MVC List View page
Styling Bootstrap tables
Bootstrap contextual table classes
Responsive and smaller tables
Bootstrap buttons
Outline buttons
Form layout and elements
Vertical/basic forms
Inline forms
Grid-based forms
Bootstrap images
Bootstrap figures
Summary
Chapter 3: Using Bootstrap Components
The Bootstrap navigation bar
Basic navbar
Responsive navbar
Navbar with dropdown menus
Navbar color schemes
List groups
Badges
Media object
Breadcrumbs
Pagination
Input groups
Button dropdowns
Alerts
Progress bars
Basic progress bar
Contextual progress bars
Striped and animated progress bars
Cards
Summary
Chapter 4: Using Bootstrap JavaScript Components
Data attributes versus the programmatic API
Cascading dropdowns
Modal dialogs
Modal size and animation
Tabs
Tooltips
Popovers
The accordion/collapse component
The carousel component
Summary
Chapter 5: Creating MVC Bootstrap Helper and Tag Helpers
Built-in HTML Helpers
Built-in Tag Helpers
The difference between HTML Helpers and Tag Helpers
Creating HTML Helpers using static methods
Using the static method helper in a view
Creating helpers using extension methods
Using the extension method helper in a view
Creating self-closing helpers
Using the self-closing helper in a view
Creating a Bootstrap button Tag Helper
Using the Bootstrap button Tag Helper
Creating a Bootstrap Alert Tag Helper
Using the Bootstrap Alert Tag Helper
Summary
Chapter 6: Converting a Bootstrap HTML Template into a Usable ASP.NET MVC Project
Working with prebuilt HTML templates
Creating the ASP.NET MVC project
Creating the master layout
Adding a view for the home controller
Adding different page views
Adding charts to views
Adding Google Charts to views
Server-side data processing with Google Charts
Summary
Chapter 7: Using the jQuery DataTables Plugin with Bootstrap 4
jQuery DataTables
Adding DataTables to your ASP.NET MVC project
Using the DataTables Bower package
Using the CDN
Adding Bootstrap styling to DataTables
Loading and displaying data in jQuery DataTables
DataTables plugins
Date sorting
Rendering
DataTables extensions
The ColReorder extension
The ColVis buttons extension
The copy and print buttons extension
Summary
Chapter 8: Creating Bootstrap 4 ASP.NET MVC Sites Using Visual Studio Code
What is Visual Studio Code?
Installing Visual Studio Code
Creating an empty ASP.NET project
Scaffolding a project using Yeoman
Enabling ASP.NET MVC and static files
Adding a default route controller and view
Using Bower to add the Bootstrap 4 files
Using Gulp to compile the Bootstrap Sass files
Creating a MVC layout page
Testing the site
Summary
Appendix: Bootstrap Resources
Themes
Add-ons
Editors and generators
Index