Archive For October 2014

Entity Framework Recipe: Alphabetical Paging In ASP.NET MVC

calendar_today 29 October 2014 20:53

ASP.NET MVC Entity Framework

This article looks at using the alphabet for paging data in MVC 5 with Entity Framework 6. Where it differs from most existing articles on alphabetical paging is that this article looks at generating paging links from the data instead of the alphabet. It also features a Bootstrap-friendly helper for generating the paging links.

Entity Framework Recipe: Hierarchical Data Management

calendar_today 24 October 2014 22:20

ASP.NET MVC Entity Framework

This article explores how to use Entity Framework 6 to manage the retrieval and display of hierarchical data such as you might find in a menu system. There are a number of existing items on the Internet that cover the same topic, but most of them seem unnecessarily complex and don't include any information about displaying the data once it has been retrieved.