Getting Started with Knockout.js for .NET Developers

Working with the Hello World example in Knockout MVC

Let's create an application based on a very simple model. It will contain only two properties: FirstName and LastName. The View will contain two TextBox elements to edit properties and a span element with a greeting text. You can find the full code of the example in the supplement code bundle of this book (HomeLibrary/HelloWorld) or look for the live example on the official site (http://knockoutmvc.com/HelloWorld).

Let's create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 project and install the kMVC packages via NuGet.

Adding the model

First of all, we should create a model. We will work with a very simple example. Let's define the following model (HelloWorld/Models/HelloWorldModel.cs):

using System.Web.Script.Serialization; ...