BabyStore

A .NET MVC app, based on ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS by Lee Naylor.

 

00 Start project

• New ASP.NET Web Application.
• MVC, Individual User Accounts.

 

01 Product, Category

• Add the Product and Category classes.

 

02 Adding a Database Context

• Add the DAL folder and the StoreContext class.

• Add a connectionString.

 

03 Adding Controllers and Views

• Add the Categories MVC 5 Controller with views.

 

04 Adding Controllers and Views

• Add the Products MVC 5 Controller with views.

 

05 Splitting DataAnnotations into Another File Using MetaDataType

• Make the Product and Category classes partial, create the ProductMetaData and CategoryMetaData classes and add annotations.

 

06 Filtering Products by Category

• Update the Index method in the ProductsController so that it receives a parameter representing a chosen category and returns a list of products that belong to that category.

• Transform the list shown in the Category Index Page to a list of hyperlinks that target the ProductsController Index method rather than a list of text items.

 

07 Product search

• Modify the Index method of the Controllers\ProductsController.cs.

• Add a Search Box to the Main Site Navigation Bar.

 

08 Filter the Search Results by Category Using ViewBag

• Update the ProductsController Index method to filter by Category.

• Add the filter to the products Index page.

 

09 Use a ViewModel

• Add the ProductIndexViewModel and the CategoryWithCount class.

• Update the ProductsController Index method to use the ViewModel.

 

10 Deleting an Entity Used as a Foreign Key

• Update the HttpPost version of the Delete method in the file \Controllers\CategoriesController.cs.

 

11 Code First Migrations

• Enable migrations for the StoreContext.

• Seed the Database with Test Data.

 

12 Adding Data Validation and Formatting Constraints to Model Classes

• Add validation and constraints using annotations on the models.

 

13 Sorting Products by Price

• Add sorting by product price.

 

14 Paging

• Add pagination with the PagedList package.

 

15 Routing

• Generate routes for categories and paging.

 

16 Creating Entities to Store Image Filenames

• Add the ProductImage class and create the ProductImages table by adding a DbSet and running a migration.