Install CentOS on VirtualBox Part 3 : Installing the Gnome Desktop Environment

In previous blog we've installed the CentOS operating system on VirtualBox however, when we reboot, it takes us to a text prompt.  In this blog we will be installing a graphical desktop environment to our operating system using "yum".  Follow the steps below to get the Gnome desktop in your CentOS.

1.  Make sure you have internet connection
2.  Click "Start" on your "CentOS" VM

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC : Create an ASP.NET MVC Empty Project

A lot of people think that you can only create one kind of ASP.NET MVC  project, the one with the sample application.  But the reality is that you can create an Empty ASP.NET MVC, you just need to do more work.  However, it is cleaner and you can add what you need, instead of having everything in place already like the default template.  So you might run into more errors with the empty project, but I think you will learn more about MVC than if you just have the default template.  Plus it's more streamline.  I always start with an empty project on my MVC projects.  In order to follow this tutorial you must have Visual Studio 2017 installed.

ASP.NET MVC 5 From Scratch : Add KnockoutJs to Project With NuGet

In this blog we will add the KnockoutJs JavaScript library to our MvcApp project.  KnockoutJs is a great lightweight data binding library.  Follow the steps below to add KnockoutJs to your ASP.NET MVC project.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

1.  Right-click on the project's "References" node, then select "Manage NuGet Packages"

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC 5 : Create Entity Data Model With Entity Framework

In our previous blogs we've created an ASP.NET MVC from scratch.  In this blog we are going to use Entity Framework as the ORM (Object Relational Mapping) as a conduit to our database, so that we can query our data as an object.  An ORM as the name implies maps database tables, views, and stored procedures as objects in a programming language so that developers can work with the data as objects.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1.  First we need to add the Entity Framework 6.1.3 to our ASP.NET MVC, we accomplish by right-click on "References" then select "Manage NuGet Packages"

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC: Adding BundleConfig

In our previous blog we've added a _ViewStart.cshtml layout to our project, which is the default layout for our pages if no layout is specified for the page.  In this blog we will add BundleConfig for the JavaScript libraries which includes JQuery, and Bootstrap that we've added to our NorthwindCafe project in the previous blogs.  A configuration bundle allows you to group files that belongs in the same libraries together so that they can called with just one line of code.  In this blog we will be creating configuration bundles for JQuery, and Bootstrap to the NorthwindCafe project.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

1.  Right-click on the folder "App_Start", then select Add → New Item → Visual C# → Class, name the class BundleConfig.cs

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC : Add JQuery Library Using NuGet

In the previous blog we've created an empty ASP.NET MVC  project.  It's a great starting point but, it's missing a lot things that we will need later.  In this blog we will add JQuery to the empty ASP.NET MVC  project that we've just created.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

1. Open the empty ASP.NET MVC project that you've just created

2.  Right click on the the "References" node in the "Solution Explorer", then select "Manage NuGet Packages"

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC: _ViewStart.cshtml The Default Layout

In ASP.NET MVC there is a default layout file that the application use when one exists.  If you look at the markup at the top of the "Index.cshtml" file you will see that there is a markup to specify the layout of the page in the code below.

End-toEnd ASP.NET MVC : Add JQuery UI Library Using NuGet

In the previous blog we've added the Bootstrap library to our empty ASP.NET MVC project.  Now let's add another commonly used JQuery library to our project.  In this blog we will add the JQuery UI library to our empty project.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

1. Open the empty ASP.NET MVC project that you've just created

2.  Right click on the the "References" node in the "Solution Explorer", then select "Manage NuGet Packages"

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC : Add Bootstrap Library Using NuGet

In the previous blog we've created added the JQuery library to an empty ASP.NET MVC project. In this blog we will add the Bootstrap to the empty ASP.NET MVC project that we've just created.

Step by Step Instructions:

1. Open the empty ASP.NET MVC project that you've just created

2.  Right click on the the "References" node in the "Solution Explorer", then select "Manage NuGet Packages"

End-to-End ASP.NET MVC : Configure The BundleConfig Class To Use CDN

A lot of developers assumed that they can only configure the BundleConfig class to use only local resources in their MVC project.  That is not the case, in fact it is quite easy to use a cdn version of your JavaScript libraries instead of the one in your local folder.  In the previous blog we went over how to create the BundleConfig class from scratch.  In this blog we will go over how to configure MVC to use the cdn resource instead of your local resource files.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

1.  Open the NorthwindCafe project
2.  Open the BundleConfig.cs file under the folder App_Start