Welcome to this review of Web Page, the 7th module of the Pluralsight course One ASP.NET From Scratch by Jesse Liberty and Jeff Fritz.

Jeff Fritz is a Program Manager for Microsoft in the ASP.NET and Azure Developer Experience teams.

Currently, he leads the NuGet team and manages the MSDN Web Developer Tools blog.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, INETA Community Champion and Developer Advocate for Telerik.

Also in this series:

Part 1 – One ASP.NET From Scratch
Part 2 – Advanced Web Forms
Part 3 – MVC
Part 4 – Advanced MVC
Part 5 – MVC and AJAX
Part 6 – Web Pages

Web Pages

Introduction

Jeff describes Web Pages as a throw back to Classic ASP. This isn’t selling it to me very well all. I still have nightmares each night.

First Web Pages Application Demo

Jeff creates a Web Pages project with Razor v2. We see the starter page looks the one we saw earlier in the Web Forms and MVC demos.

Jeff codes in the view Default.cshtml

Simple Data Access

There are only two methods: Query and Execute.

Data Access Demo

This uses a SQL Server compact file. We can see the data using the Visual Studio Server Explorer.

Jeff writes an inline database query, and an inline update statement, in the view. Everything is in the view.

Validation

There is one ValidationHelper object. We can use it to set:

• RequireField
• Minimum Value
• Maximum Value
• Maximum Length

Validation Demo

We have a new view, AddProduct.cshtml.

Jeff demonstrates how to set fields as required, set required string lengths, check inputs are numbers, and enforce a valid range.

Web Pages Helpers

Helpers are compiled code that assists in generating HTML markup.

Jeff shows off the WebGrid helper and then installs the ASP.NET Web Helpers Library using NuGet.

Then he demonstrates these:

The Gravatar helper, which fetches your Gravatar image

The Twitter helper has TweetButton and FollowButton methods.

The Facebook helper has a LikeButton method.

Overall, Web Pages represents a very easy way to throw together a basic web site or very small application.

The final part on Web API is coming soon