How to implement MVC (MVC3) model view architecture

In this tutorial one can learn the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC3 Web application using Microsoft Visual Studio, which is a free version of Microsoft Visual Studio.
Before you start, make sure you have the following things installed using the Web Platform Installer.

Visual Studio Web Developer Express with SQL Express

ASP.NET MVC 3

SQL Management Studio

A Visual Web Developer project with C# source code is available to accompany this topic. Download the C# version here. If you prefer Visual Basic,you can apply all these steps using Visual Basic as you Templates.

You'll Learn In this tutorial :-

How to implement a new ASP.NET MVC project solution.

How to implement ASP.NET MVC controllers and views.

How to implement a create new database using the Entity Framework code-first paradigm.

How to retrieve and display data.

How to edit data and enable data validation. 

Getting Started

Start by running Visual Studion 2010 Ultimate and select New Project from the Start page.

  

Create Your First Application in ASP.NET MVC3 Web Application

 

In the New ASP.NET MVC 3 Project dialog box, select Internet Application. Leave Razor as the default view engine or you select ASPX View.

 

Now Click OK. Visual Studio Used Default templete for the ASP.NET MVC project which you created. Now you are working on this application.

Create The Model For The MVCStudent Application

• Go To  Solution Explorer > App_Data >  Add > Existing Item explorer to locate the Student.mdf file. Select it and click Add.
• Now Go To Solution Explorer > Models > Add > New Item Now Select ADO.Net  Entity Data Model.
• Change the name of the model to Model1.edmx and click Add. 

 

• In the Choose Model Contents window, select Generate from database and then click the Next button. 
• On the Choose Your Data Connection page, select Student.mdf in the data connection drop down and click Next.

• Check the Tables checkbox in Choose Your Database Objects (shown in Figure 3) and click Finish.

Visual Studio will open the Entity Data Model designer with the new model,

From the Debug menu, select Start Debugging.

On Keyboard Shortcut Press F5 to Start Debugging.

 

In default template on right side gives you two pages and login page. Now close your browser and start some coding.

 

Adding a Controller

In First Step is to creat controller class. In Solution Explorer > Controllers > Add > Controller

Now name your new controller and click Add.

Notice in Solution Explorer that a new file has been created named StudentController.cs.

Now Creating Index View to Display the Student List

Right click anywhere in the Index method declaration (public ActionResult Index()).

In the context menu that opens click the Add View option.

The AddView dialog will open with the View name already set to Index.

Check the Create a strongly typed view checkbox.

Drop down the Model class option and select Blog.

From the Scaffold template options select List.

These selections will force Visual Studio to create a new web page with markup to display a list of Blogs. The markup for this web page will use the new MVC Razor syntax. Figure 12 shows the Add View dialog.

Click Add to complete the view creation.

 

Running the Application

            When you first created the MVC application with the template defaults, Visual Studio created a global.asax file that has in it an instruction, called a routing, that tells the application to start with the Index view of the Home controller. You’ll need to change that to start with the Index View of the Blog controller instead.

Open the global.asax file from Solution Explorer.

            

             Modify the MapRoute call to change the value of controller from “Home” to “Student”.

Now Run The Application 

Now run your application  and see you can create, edit, detail, 

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