Building Rich Input Forms in ASP.NET MVC

[sergiocakmak]

thx Michael Kennedy clear and profesional tutorials

[dejohnny]

This is a really good video and I'm enjoying it. Thanks Michael!

[albxdotcom]

This is not a poke at the presenter, I think you did a fine job. But at 41:55 in the video, it all became clear to me. Basically we now have TWICE the amount of code with MVC, because instead of mapping the control values to a model, now we would create a model, a view model (with similar properties) and we map the properties from the viewmodel to the model. On top of it all, we have additional Controller classes for every table? All this newer technology from Microsoft has me NOT wanting to drink the Kool Aid. Even the razor syntax reminds me of old classic ASP. Maybe I'm totally off base here and a DataTable kind of guy, and someone correct me, but I think Microsoft web tech is moving backwards. WebForms did a great job for years and my helper classes generated all the controls dynamically on my web forms. Somebody please tell me what I'm missing here. 

[zephyrmeme]

This is really a good tutorial. Thank you Michael !

[avishekhbharati]

Great tutorial. Thumps up!!
But is your category and book class have relationship or are they independent classes? I made them independent with no relationship. But in BookViewModel when I wrote a property for CategoryID with type ObjectID. I got an error : "Generate class for ObjectID" . I am new to asp.net. Please clear my doubts. :)

[shainemaguire]

This is awesome stuff, but wondering why you are hard coding the text for the label and not using the HTML helper for LabelFor or DisplayFor which would get the information from the model in the DataAnnotation [DisplayName("XYZ")] or [Display(Name = "XYZ")

[UdayShivamurthy]

Hey Mike, the text becoming all blurry, fuzzy and crazy is only on YouTube for iPAD. All looks good on a standard pc with a hi-res screen thanks mate!!

[shainemaguire]

When you are returning Json, you should be using a JsonResult instead of an ActionResult. :)

[mikeckennedy]

Hi, sure thing. I'll put it in the comments. BTW, it's not exactly the code but it's close enough.

[UdayShivamurthy]

Hi mike, thanks ...can't see any text wonder if it YouTube on iPad that's wrong!

[hozae]

The video started great but then I think after the system crash you degraded the video quality due to which the video lags and also degraded the sound quality.

[cryptopunk]

Sorry. Give please Source code Amazoon

[mikeckennedy]

Yeah, sorry about that. I couldn't help it.