Instant Razor View Engine How-to

By Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This is a Packt Instant How-to guide, which provides concise and clear recipes for configuring RazorView and working with its syntax and view types.This book is for developers who are looking for alternate ways to simplify web application development.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: May 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781849696319

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Instant Razor View Engine How-to

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Instant Razor View Engine How-to

Introduction

Why Razor?

Versions

Prerequisites

Creating the project (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Fundamental Razor syntaxes (Must know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Inline code expressions

Code block expression

Mixed code expression

Razor layout pages (Become an expert)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Models in Razor (Must know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Creating a data model class

Scaffolding view templates

@inherits and @model directives

Manually adding view templates

There's more...

Razor helpers (Must know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

HTML helpers using the extension method

HTML helpers using the @helper syntax

Standard HTML helpers

Input helpers

Form helpers

Validation helpers

Link helpers

Label helpers

How it works...

There's more...

Partial views (Should know)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Partial helper

RenderPartial

Action and RenderAction helpers

How it works...

There's more...

Instant Razor View Engine How-to

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Instant Razor View Engine How-to

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Credits

Author

Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa

Reviewer

Ahsan Murshed

Acquisition Editor

Akram Hussain

Commissioning Editor

Shreerang Deshpande

Technical Editor

Nitee Shetty

Project Coordinator

Siddhant Shetty

Proofreader

Maria Gould

Production Coordinator

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Cover Work

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Cover Image

Sheetal Aute

About the Author

Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa works at Coxtan College, located in Bokaro Steel City, India as a lecturer focused on web technologies. He is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET/IIS. He loves to blog and started blogging in June 2009. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Applications, a master's degree in Information Technology, and a few application-level diplomas. He moved to Bokaro Steel City from a remote village to pursue higher education in March 2003, and that was when he saw a computer with Windows 95 OS on Pentium 1 for the first time, and since then, he has never looked back.

A big thank you to my mom, dad, my sister Ambuj, my brother Avnish, the Indian MVP Community, and to you for reading this book. Enjoy!

About the Reviewer

Ahsan Murshed is an ex-MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) for the period of 2011-2013. Now he is working as a software engineer, with more than 6 years of experience in the