ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials

Understanding Action Filters

ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials — Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

The goal of this tutorial is to explain action filters. An action filter is an attribute that you can apply to a controller action -- or an entire controller -- that modifies the way in which the action is executed.
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Creating Page Layouts with View Master Pages

ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials — Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

In this tutorial, you learn how to create a common page layout for multiple pages in your application by taking advantage of view master pages. You can use a view master page, for example, to define a two-column page layout and use the two-column layout for all of the pages in your web application.
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Passing Data to View Master Pages

ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials — Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

The goal of this tutorial is to explain how you can pass data from a controller to a view master page. We examine two strategies for passing data to a view master page. First, we discuss an easy solution that results in an application that is difficult to maintain. Next, we examine a much better solution that requires a little more initial work but results in a much more maintainable application.
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Displaying a Table of Database Data

ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials — Tuesday, 7 Oct 2008

In this tutorial, I demonstrate two methods of displaying a set of database records. I show two methods of formatting a set of database records in an HTML table. First, I show how you can format the database records directly within a view. Next, I demonstrate how you can take advantage of partials when formatting database records.
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Creating Custom HTML Helpers

ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials — Tuesday, 7 Oct 2008

The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate how you can create custom HTML Helpers that you can use within your MVC views. By taking advantage of HTML Helpers, you can reduce the amount of tedious typing of HTML tags that you must perform to create a standard HTML page.
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Creating Model Classes with LINQ to SQL

ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials — Tuesday, 7 Oct 2008

The goal of this tutorial is to explain one method of creating model classes for an ASP.NET MVC application. In this tutorial, you learn how to build model classes and perform database access by taking advantage of Microsoft LINQ to SQL.
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Using ASP.NET MVC with Different Versions of IIS