Contents
Getting Started ........................................................................................................................................ 3
What You'll Build ........................................................................................................................... 3
Skills You'll Learn ........................................................................................................................... 5
Getting Started .............................................................................................................................. 6
Creating Your First Application .................................................................................................... 7
Adding a Controller ............................................................................................................................ 13
Adding a View ..................................................................................................................................... 20
Changing Views and Layout Pages ............................................................................................ 25
Passing Data from the Controller to the View ........................................................................... 31
Adding a Model .................................................................................................................................. 37
Adding Model Classes................................................................................................................. 37
Creating a Connection String and Working with SQL Server LocalDB .................................... 41
Accessing Your Model's Data from a Controller ............................................................................... 43
Creating a Movie ......................................................................................................................... 46
Examining the Generated Code.................................................................................................. 48
Strongly Typed Models and the @model Keyword .................................................................. 49
Working with SQL Server LocalDB ............................................................................................. 53
Examining the Edit Methods and Edit View ...................................................................................... 58
Processing the POST Request ..................................................................................................... 65
Adding a Search Method and Search View ............................................................................... 67
Displaying the SearchIndex Form ............................................................................................... 67
Adding Search by Genre ............................................................................................................. 77
Adding Markup to the SearchIndex View to Support Search by Genre .................................. 79
Adding a New Field to the Movie Model and Table ......................................................................... 80
Adding a Rating Property to the Movie Model ......................................................................... 80
Managing Model and Database Schema Differences ............................................................... 82
Automatically Re-Creating the Database on Model Changes .................................................. 85
