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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition
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Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC - Second Edition

by Pieter van der Westhuizen
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
186 pages
3h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5.  Creating MVC Bootstrap Helper and Tag Helpers

ASP.NET Core allows developers to create their own HTML Helper methods either by creating static or extension methods. In essence, an HTML Helper is simply a method that returns an HTML string.

HTML Helpers enable you to use the same common block of markup on multiple pages and make the code and markup in your pages easier to read and maintain. This promotes the use of reusable code, and developers can also unit test their helper methods.

ASP.NET Core also introduced a new concept called a Tag Helper that serves a similar purpose to a HTML Helper. The Tag Helpers is not a replacement for the traditional the HTML Helpers but provides developers with an alternative way to generate cleaner ...

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