CHAPTER 19

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Helper Methods

In this chapter, we look at the helper methods, which allow you to package up chunks of code and markup so that they can be reused throughout an MVC Framework application. We start by showing you how to create your own helper methods. The MVC Framework comes with a wide-range of built-in helper methods, and we will explore them in this chapter and the chapters that follow, starting with the helper methods that you can use to create HTML form, input and select elements.

Creating the Example Project

For this chapter, we have created a new Visual Studio MVC project called HelperMethods using the Basic template option. We ...

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