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This article is part 4 of an X-Part series. If you have not been following the series, you can find the first article Here.

On Today’s Agenda …
Welcome to Part 4 of the Your First MVC Application series. The aim of this article is to introduce Paging within the application using a NuGet package and we will also allow users to search for a contact by name. Then I will discuss Concurrency, the methods available to prevent it and we will then implement some Concurrency Handling into the application.

Paging
Let’s start of by adding paging to the list of our Contact’s, which is held on the Contact Controller’s Index view. To do this, we need to add a NuGet packaged called PagedList, which brings with it the PagedList datatype, which is a collection of the declared type, similar to a list but with added methods to allow us to easily page our data.

Right click on your Project and select Manage NuGet Packages. In the Search Box of the popup windows (Top right corner) type “PagedList”. Install the package, as illustrated below;

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This article is part 3 of an X-Part series. If you have not been following the series, you can find the first article Here.

Up to now we have created a single Model, Contact, and modelled it’s controller and views. We then spent time exploring the Controller & it’s actions and improving them. We also implemented a soft-delete method.

What’s next?

The plan for Part-3 is to introduce a second Model into our application. This Model is going to hold Types of contact we may possibly have within our contact manager. The user needs the ability to add, edit and remove these types, but only removing them if they don’t have associated contacts.

We will then introduce a method to view Contacts based upon the type of contact they are, or display all contacts.

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This article is part 2 of an X-Part series. If you have not been following the series, you can find the first article Here.

In Part 1 of this series we finished with an application capable of basic CRUD operations on a code-first model which entity framework used to create a simple, one-table database. The last action we committed was to create a code-scaffolded controller and auto-generate it’s views, using the default MVC template.

Inside a Controller

We are going to pickup exactly were we left off and discuss the inner workings of controllers. Open your solution from Part 1 and navigate yourself into the Controllers Folder and open HomeController.cs. We will start by analysing the HomeController as this default controller is incredibly easy to understand.

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Welcome.

I am assuming you are here because you want to learn how to create web applications using ASP.Net MVC4. If you’re not, you are in the wrong place.

I’m not joking, read the article title!

This is not a quick example. Well, it is. But it could be more complex and done in a better way, I will admit. This is designed as an article for beginners just setting out with ASP.Net MVC4. I will build on this application in each progressive application in order to show new techniques and concepts. This will never be an enterprise level application, but this series will teach you the footing you need to succeed within the wonderful world of MVC4.

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