asked on MVC template web application (C#)... need a roadmap.
I used to code for a living so I'm thinking I will build a few web sites and get up to speed on the way things are done now. I did some reading on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Follow the instructions in the books, build some stupid example sites that amount to 3 to 5 files, you know the tutorials. Ok, time to do something real.
I have Visual Studio 2013 so I figure I'll start there and lean on the Intellisense crutch until I get a feel. I am trying to find my way around Visual Studio 2013 and, specifically, trying to build a basic MVC web app and get up to speed.
File | New | Project | Templates | Visual C# | Web | ASP.NET Web Application | MVC ...
Poof! 278 files in 120 folders. Seriously.
I get the MVC concept. I get C#. I get HTML 101 and CSS 101 and JavaScript 101. But there are a lot of arbitrary modularizations and abstractions in this template that seem to come from thin air. HTML files are CSHTML files I guess. What is a ViewBag and why is there an @ reference in front of it? If I knew what the @ was I might be able to find documentation for this:
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Contact";
}
<h2>@ViewBag.Title.</h2>
<h3>@ViewBag.Message</h3>
I have not met this @ and that is a challenge, but there are surely lots of other things like it. Where can I get an overview of what all the files are for and what these far-from-self-documenting notations are? BTW, I did figure out the $ in JQuery.
I have Visual Studio 2013 so I figure I'll start there and lean on the Intellisense crutch until I get a feel. I am trying to find my way around Visual Studio 2013 and, specifically, trying to build a basic MVC web app and get up to speed.
File | New | Project | Templates | Visual C# | Web | ASP.NET Web Application | MVC ...
Poof! 278 files in 120 folders. Seriously.
I get the MVC concept. I get C#. I get HTML 101 and CSS 101 and JavaScript 101. But there are a lot of arbitrary modularizations and abstractions in this template that seem to come from thin air. HTML files are CSHTML files I guess. What is a ViewBag and why is there an @ reference in front of it? If I knew what the @ was I might be able to find documentation for this:
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Contact";
}
<h2>@ViewBag.Title.</h2>
<h3>@ViewBag.Message</h3>
I have not met this @ and that is a challenge, but there are surely lots of other things like it. Where can I get an overview of what all the files are for and what these far-from-self-documenting notations are? BTW, I did figure out the $ in JQuery.
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Kenny Hopton
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I am still looking for a general roadmap. The secret about files starting with _ being wrappers of a sort, for example. All the secret names like App_Code. I am stumbling over them but I feel like there ought to be a big list so I will be able to tell what all the files in my sample project do. Any idea where I might learn all those arbitrary things?