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In the previous video, we added our Comic Book List view, but we left it in an unfinished state. Let’s work on finishing it now.
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Here’s the markup that the designer provided to us for the “Comic Books List” view.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-3">
<h4>The Amazing Spider-Man #700</h4>
<img src="/Images/the-amazing-spider-man-700.jpg"
alt="The Amazing Spider-Man #700"
class="img-responsive" />
</div>
</div>
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In the previous video,
we added our comic book list view, but
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we left it in an unfinished state,
let's work on finishing it now,
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start by adding the model
directive to the top of the view.
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Remember, we need to provide the full
name space, to our comic book model.
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Don't forget the brackets to indicate
that we're expecting an array.
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This will make our view strongly typed,
specifically making the view's Model
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property to be an array
of ComicBook objects.
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That aligns with the type of data that
the controller is passing to this view.
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Next, let's set the ViewBag property
to the string literal comic books.
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For the H2 heading element content
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let's replace index with
the ViewBag Title property value.
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By using the ViewBag Title property we've
prevented the unnecessary duplications
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of the string literal comic books.
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If we ever decided to
change our page title,
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this will make it slightly easier to do.
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Now we're ready to build up the market for
our comic books.
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Our designer has provided us with the HTML
they'd like to use, just like they did for
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the comic book detail view.
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Here's the HTML that they sent me.
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Let's select, copy and
paste this markup into our view.
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The markup itself is
fairly straightforward.
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We start with a bootstrap grid
row followed by a grid column
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that will occupy three of
the twelve available grid columns.
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Within the grid column, is a heading
containing our comic books display text
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followed by the comic book cover image.
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The cover image uses bootstraps
img-responsive C.S.S.
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class, which ensures that the image
will scale to fit its parent element.
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To make this HTML dynamic, we need to
start by surrounding the Grid column,
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with the for each loop.
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So the markup for
a comic book will be repeated for
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each item that we have in our
array just after the grid row,
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create a new line,
type an at symbol to switch to code and
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type for each to select the for
each code snippet and press tab.
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Lets name our item variable comicBook.
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Remember our array of comic
books is available to us
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via the view's model property.
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So they'll be the source for our loop.
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Press escape to exit the code snippet.
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Lastly cut and paste the grid
column markup into the code block.
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Now, let's update the comicBook
markup starting with the heading.
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Replace the text,
The Amazing Spider-Man #700.
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With the comicBook.DisplayText
property value.
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Then, like we did for
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the cover image, on the comic book detail
view we can replace the image file name
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with the comicBook.CoverImageFileName
property value.
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And the alternate text with
the comicBook.DisplayText property value.
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Let's test our changes save the view and
start the website.
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Great, here's our list of comic books,
if we open the developer tools and
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enable the device mode, we can see
that the bootstrap response of grid
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will vertically stack are coming books
in order to adjust to the smaller screen
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Bootstrap really makes it easy to
create mobile friendly layouts.
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Let's switch back to Visual Studio.
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Notice that we didn't need to set
the view's layout property in order for
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the view to use our layout page.
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This is possible because
Visual Studio added an _ViewStart.cs
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HTML file to our project's views
folder when we added our index view.
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The view start file
allows us to provide code
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to execute at the start
of each views rendering.
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This helps consolidate initialization code
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that would otherwise need to be
added to each individual view.
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This is another example of the dry, don't
repeat yourself, design principle at work.
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Let's go ahead and
jump into our comic book detail view and
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do a little cleanup work.
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We no longer need to set
the view's Layout property here.
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So let's remove that line of code and
save the view.
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Now that we have our comic book's list
view let's test our home page by browsing
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to the root of our website.
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No, we're still getting a 404 error.
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in the next video will work on
resolving this issue once and for all.
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Go ahead and close Chrome and
stop the website.
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If you're using GitHub, let's commit our
changes before we wrap up this video.
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Enter a commit message of
updated comic books list view.
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and click the commit all button.
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See you after a short break where
you can exercise your brain.
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