Chapter 12. Editing data
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
— J. K. Rowling
At its core, editing data from within an ASP.NET MVC application is easy. All you do is create an HTML form and post data from there to some HTTP endpoints. To be even more precise, it all boils down to arranging a POST (or even a GET) HTTP call to pass all necessary data. To place an HTTP call, you can use jQuery or plain Ajax facilities, but using an HTML form is still the most widely used approach.
In this chapter, I’ll review a few common practices for posting data to a web server and for dealing with the system’s feedback, whether that feedback is a plain confirmation or a list of errors.
A common form for the login page
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