Programming Articles

In this final part of this article series, you build a product detail page to add and edit product data. You add a delete button on the list page to remove a product from the database. You learn to validate product data and display validation messages to the user. Finally, you learn to cancel out of an add or edit page, bypassing validation and returning to the product list page.

In this article, you're going to add on to the sample from the last article to sort the database when the user clicks on any of the column headers in the HTML table. You're going to learn how to add a pager to your HTML table so only a specified number of rows are displayed on the page. Finally, you learn to cache the product data in the Session object to improve performance.

This article presents how to use the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) design pattern in MVC Core applications. The MVVM approach has long been used in WPF applications but hasn't been as prevalent in MVC or MVC Core applications. This article illustrates how using MVVM in MVC makes your applications even more reusable, testable, and maintainable. You're going to be guided step-by-step building an MVC Core application using the Entity Framework (EF) and a view model class to display and search for product data.