ajsaulsberry / BlipDrop

ASP.NET MVC case study solution for PluralSight Guides. Demonstrates how to use populate dropdown lists in Razor views.

BlipDrop

BlipDrop is an ASP.NET MVC case study solution created to accompany a guide in the PluralSight Guides collection for Microsoft .NET technologies.

PluralSight Guides

ASP.NET MVC - Populating dropdown lists in Razor views using the MVVM design pattern, Entity Framework, and Ajax - This guide presents a couple common ways to populate dropdown lists in ASP.NET MVC Razor views, with an emphasis on producing functional HTML forms with a minimum amount of code.

Notice: PluralSight and the author(s) disclaim any liability for errors or omissions in this code. See the Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability for complete information.

Design Patterns

Model-View-ViewModel
Repository

Solution Projects

Project	Application Layer
Blip.Drop	(all)

Technologies

Dependency	Version*
.NET Framework	4.6.2
ASP.NET MVC	5.2.7
Bootstrap	3.4.1
C#	6
Entity Framework	6.4.0
jQuery	3.5.0
jQuery Validation	1.19.1
Microsoft jQuery Unobtrusive Validation	3.2.11

* As of the latest commit.

Getting Started

1. Download or clone this repository.
2. Open the solution in Visual Studio 2017 or higher.
3. Select the Blip.Drop project.
4. Open the Web.config file in the project root and update the value of connectionString for the ApplicationDbContext connection string to point to a SQL Server database engine that exists on your local machine.
5. Open a Package Manager Console window.
6. Run: update-database.

This will create the database, apply Entity Framework migrations, and run the Seed method to populate the database with values for the lookup tables.

Configuration

• The project contains a configuration string which may require modification for the developer's specific environment:

  Project	File
  Blip.Web	Web.config

• The configuration string specifies the target database server: Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLOcalDB. Developers using a different target database will have to change the connection string.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Contributing

See the accompanying instructions on How to contribute.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

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To the extent possible, in no event will the authors be liable on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of the use of the contents, even if the the authors have been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages.

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