Week 2 Lecture 4 Lab

Introduction to ASP.
Net MVC
Course Code: CSC 4164 Course Title: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING WITH .NET
Dept. of Computer Science

Faculty of Science and Technology
Lecture No: 04 Week No: 02 Semester: Fall 2020-21

Lecturer: Victor Stany Rozario, stany@aiub.edu
Lecture Outline
• Controller finding a view

• Passing data from Controller to View
• Models
• Strongly typed views
Controller finding a view
• The URL tells the routing mechanism which controller class to
instantiate and which action method to call and supplies the
required arguments to that method.
• The controller’s method then decides which view to use, and that
view then renders the HTML.
• The Views directory contains a folder for your controller, with the
same name as the controller.
• Within controller folder there’s a view file for each action method,
named the same as the action method.
• This is how views are associated to an action method.
Passing data from Controller to View
• ViewBag: Is a type object and a dynamic property under the
controller base class.
o It is ideally temporary data.
o It doesn’t have typecasting and null checks.
• ViewData: Is a dictionary which can contain key-value pairs where
each key must be string. Requires typecasting as well as null checks.
• Passing an object of the model class to the View.
• TempData: Stays for a subsequent HTTP Request as opposed to other
options (ViewBag and ViewData) those stay only for current request.
o Maintain data between controller actions as well as redirects.
o Typecasting and null checks required in order to avoid errors.
public ActionResult TemporaryEmployee()
{
Employee employee = new Employee
{
EmpID = “121”,
EmpFirstName = “John”,
EmpLastName = “Nguyen”
};
TempData[“Employee”] = employee;
return
RedirectToAction(“PermanentEmployee”);
}
Models
What is Model?
• Business/domain logic
• Model objects, retrieve and store model state in a persistent storage (database).
public class Customer{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public string Company { get; set; }
public IEnumerable Orders { get; set; }
}
Creating Models
Add a folder named “Models”. In Solution Explorer, right-click the project. Select Add 
New Folder. Name the folder Models.
Right-click the Models folder and select Add  New Item. In Add New Item, select the
Class. Name the class TodoItem and click OK.
publicclassTodoItem
{
public string Key { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public bool IsComplete { get; set; }
}
Strongly typed views
• The view which binds to a specific type of View Model by passing the model
object as a parameter to the View() method is called as Strongly Typed View.
public class HomeController : Controller

{
public ActionResult Index()
{
EmployeeBusinessLayer employeeBL = new EmployeeBusinessLayer();
Employee employee = employeeBL.GetEmployeeDetails(101);
ViewBag.Header = "Employee Details";
return View(employee);
}
}
Changes in Index.cshtml View:
@model FirstMVCDemo.Models.Employee
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> Advantages of Strongly-typed views:
<head> • Strongly Typed View in ASP.NET MVC
<meta name="viewport" provides compile-time error checking as
content="width=device-width" /> well as intelligence support.
<title>Page Title</title> • If we misspell the property name, then
</head> it comes to know at compile time rather
<body> than at runtime.
<h2>@ViewBag.Header</h2>
<table style="font-family:Arial">
<tr>
<td>Employee ID:</td>
<td>@Model.EmployeeId </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name:</td>
<td>@Model.Name</td>
</tr> </table>
</body>
</html>
Books
1. Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB; Imar Spaanjaars,2010

2. Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional; 2nd
edition, Matthew MacDonald,2007
3. ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed by Stephen Walther, 2008
4. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 by Matthew
MacDonald,2008
5. ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies by Ken Cox,2008
References
1. ASP.NET; URL: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet

2. URL: https://www. tutorialspoint.com/index.htm
3. URL: http://www.webdevelopmenthelp.net/2014
4. View Engines; URL: https://www.tutorialride.com/asp-net-mvc
5. URL: https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/mvc
6. Strongly typed views; URL: https://dotnettutorials.net/lesson
Thank you!

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Introduction to ASP.

Dept. of Computer Science

Lecture No: 04 Week No: 02 Semester: Fall 2020-21

• Controller finding a view

public class HomeController : Controller

1. Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB; Imar Spaanjaars,2010

1. ASP.NET; URL: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet

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