Exploring ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Explore how to build dynamic web pages using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages by blending C# code with HTML markup. Learn to convert static pages to Razor Pages, enable necessary services, and manage page lifecycle methods to handle HTTP requests. Understand the use of Razor syntax, directives, and how to output dynamic data like the current day on your website.

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Enabling Razor Pages
Adding code to a Razor Page
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ASP.NET Core Razor Pages allow developers to easily mix C# code statements with HTML markup to make the generated web page dynamic. That is why Razor Pages uses the .cshtml file extension. By convention, ASP.NET Core looks for Razor Pages in a folder named Pages.

Enabling Razor Pages

We will now copy and change the static HTML page into a dynamic Razor Page and then add and enable the Razor Pages service:

Step 1: In the Northwind.Web project folder, create a folder named Pages.

Step 2: Copy the index.html file into the Pages folder (in Visual Studio, hold down Ctrl while dragging and dropping.)

Step 3: For the file in the Pages folder, rename the file extension from .html to .cshtml.

Step 4: In ...

1.Introduction

2.Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

3.Speaking C#

4.Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exception

5.Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

6.Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

7.Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

8.Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

9.Working with Common .NET Types

10.Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

11.Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

12.Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

13.Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

14.Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

15.Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

16.Building and Consuming Web Services

17.Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

18.Conclusion

Exploring ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Enabling Razor Pages