OdeToFood

A repo for the ASP.NET Core Pluralsight Project.

The following are additional notes and FAQs about the course.

ASP.NET Core 3

The original version of the code as recorded in the Pluralsight course is with ASP.NET Core 2.1. I've placed this code into a branch named aspnet21.

The master branch I am updating to use ASP.NET Core 3 and the latest versions of Bootstrap and jQuery.

Module 1

Clip 2 - Creating the Project

To create, build, and run a project like we do in Visual Studio, you can use the command line:

dotnet new razor
dotnet build
dotnet run

Some environments, like Visual Studio Code, can also detect .NET Core projects and automatically add support to build and run from the VS Code menus.

Clip 3 - Saving changes and refreshing

VS uses some magic to automatically restart the web server when you make changes to source code files. If you are using command line tools, you can do the same using:

dotnet watch run

... instead of ...

dotnet run

Clip 7 - Adding the OdeToFood.Core project

You can use dotnet to create the class library. Place this at the same folder level as the OdeToFood project.

dotnet new classlib

Module 2

Clip 3

Bootstrap 4 does not include glyphicons. Font Awesome is a good replacement. Once you've included the Font Awesome stylesheet into your _Layout page with a link tag, the icons are just as easy to use. To show a search icon, for example:

<i class="fas fa-search"></i>

Module 3

Note that Bootstrap version 4 no longer provides icons out of the box. See the docs for more info.

Clip 5

You'll need to install the NuGet package dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator. From the comamnd line:

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator 

After installing, the following command should display a help screen and a list of available generators. Make sure you execute the command inside a directory where a project exists.

dotnet aspnet-codegenerator -h

Now you should be able to follow along with the scaffolding in the video.

dotnet aspnet-codegenerator razorpage List Empty -udl -outDir Pages\Restaurants\

For Visual Studio users, you might also want a reference to CodeGeneration tools you can use from the UI. Run the following command in the project directory:

dotnet add package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design
dotnet restore

This will allow you to right-click the project and run scaffolding. s

Module 4

Clip 2

See Install SQL Server on a Mac if you are moving through the course using Visual Studio for the MAC. From user db:

Once installed, take a note of your database user name (usually 'sa') and password.

It is very smooth. I am using DBBeaver which is also explained in the article above and I find it great.

Following Scott's class here, where he sets database connection string in appsettings.json to his local DB instance in Windows, you can just use this connection string:

"ConnectionStrings": {
    "OdeToFoodDb":"Server=localhost,1433;Database=OdeToFood;User Id=sa; Password=your-password"
}

, then replace 'your-password' with your real password you choose when installing the SQL server image in docker container.

It is very simple and smooth experience.

Module 7

Implementing an API Controller

If you aren't using Visual Studio, the scaffolding shown in this clip is something you can also achieve with the dotnet-aspnet-codegenerator tool discussed in module 3. The command would look like:

dotnet aspnet-codegenerator controller -api --name RestaurantsController
    -- model OdeToFood.Core.Restaurant --dataContext OdeToFood.Data.OdeToFoodDbContext 

Note the -api switch uses a single dash.