ASP.NET Core Angular 2 EF 1.0.1 Web API Using Template Pack

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1/17/2024

Introduction

In this article let’s see how to create our first ASP.NET Core Angular 2 Starter Application (.NET Core) using Template pack using Entity Framework 1.0.1 and Web API to display data from the database to our Angular2 and ASP.NET Core web application.
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Note
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**Kindly read our previous article which explains in depth about Getting Started With ASP.NET Core Template Pack

In this article we will see about:

Creating sample Database and Table in SQL Server to display in our web application.
How to create ASP.NET Core Angular 2 Starter Application (.NET Core) using Template pack
Creating EF, DBContext Class and Model Class.
Creating WEB API
Creating our First Component TypeScript file to get WEB API JSON result using Http Module.
Creating our first Component HTML file to bind final result.

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Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed all the prerequisites in your computer. If not, then download and install all of them, one by one.

First, download and install Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3 from this link.
If you have Visual Studio 2015 and have not yet updated with update 3, download and install the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 from this link.
Download and install .NET Core 1.0.1
Download and install TypeScript 2.0
Download and install Node.js v4.0 or above. I have installed V6.9.1 (Download link).
Download and install Download ASP.NET Core Template Pack visz file from this link.

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Code Part

Step 1 Create a Database and Table

** **We will be using our SQL Server database for our WEB API and EF. First, we create a database named StudentsDB and a table as StudentMaster. Here is the SQL script to create a Database table and sample record insert query in our table. Run the below query on your local SQL server to create Database and Table to be used in our project.
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USEMASTER   
GO   
--1) Check   
for the Database Exists.If the database is  exist then  drop and  create new DB   
IFEXISTS(SELECT[name] FROMsys.databasesWHERE[name] = 'StudentsDB')   
DROPDATABASEStudentsDB   
GO   
CREATEDATABASEStudentsDB   
GO   
USEStudentsDB   
GO   
--1) //////////// StudentMasters   
IFEXISTS(SELECT[name] FROMsys.tablesWHERE[name] = 'StudentMasters')   
DROPTABLEStudentMasters   
GO   
CREATETABLE[dbo].[StudentMasters](   
        [StdID] INTIDENTITYPRIMARYKEY, [StdName][varchar](100) NOTNULL, [Email][varchar](100) NOTNULL, [Phone][varchar](20) NOTNULL, [Address][varchar](200) NOTNULL   
    )   
    --insert sample data to Student Master table   
INSERTINTO[StudentMasters]([StdName], [Email], [Phone], [Address])   
VALUES('Shanu', 'syedshanumcain@gmail.com', '01030550007', 'Madurai,India')   
INSERTINTO[StudentMasters]([StdName], [Email], [Phone], [Address])   
VALUES('Afraz', 'Afraz@afrazmail.com', '01030550006', 'Madurai,India')   
INSERTINTO[StudentMasters]([StdName], [Email], [Phone], [Address])   
VALUES('Afreen', 'Afreen@afreenmail.com', '01030550005', 'Madurai,India')   
select * from[StudentMasters]

Step 2 Create ASP.NET Core Angular 2 application

After installing all the prerequisites listed above and ASP.NET Core Template, click Start >> Programs >> Visual Studio 2015 >> Visual Studio 2015, on your desktop. Click New >> Project. Select Web >> ASP.NET Core Angular 2 Starter. Enter your project name and click OK.
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After creating ASP.NET Core Angular 2 application, wait for a few seconds. You will see that all the dependencies are automatically restoring.

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We can see all the CSS,JS files are added under the “dist” folder .”main-client.js” file is the important file as all the Angular2 results will be compiled and results will be loaded from this “js” file to our HTML file.
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ClientApp Folder

** **We can see a new folder Client App inside our project solution. This folder contains all Angular2 related applications like Modules, Components and etc. We can add all our Angular 2 related Modules, Component, Template, and HTML files under this folder. We can see in detail about how to create our own Angular2 application here, below, in our article.

In Components folder under app folder, we can see many subfolders like app. counter, fetchdata, home and navmenu. By default, all these sample applications have been created and when we run our application we can see all the sample Angular2 application results.
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When we run the application, we can see navigation on the left side and the right side contains data. All the Angular2 samples will be loaded from the above folder.

Controllers Folder:

** **This is our MVC Controller folder, we can create both MVC and Web API Controller in this folder.
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View Folder:

This is our MVC View folder.

project.json:

** **ASP.NET Core dependency list can be found in this file, We will be adding our Entity Framework in dependency section of this file.

package.json:

** **This is another important file as all Angular2 related dependency list will be added here by default all the Angular2 related dependencies has been added here in ASP.NET Core Template pack.

appsettings.json:

** **We can add our database connection string in this appsetting.json file.

We will be using all this in our project to create, build and run our Angular 2 with ASP.NET Core Template Pack, WEB API and EF 1.0.1
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Step 3 Creating Entity Framework

** **Add Entity Framework Packages

To add our Entity Framework Packages in our ASP.NET Core application, open the Project.JSON File and in dependencies add the below line.

Note Here we have used EF version 1.0.1.

"Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer": "1.0.1",   
"Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final"

When we save the project.json file we can see the reference is restored.
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After few seconds we can see Entity framework package has been restored and all references have been added.

Adding Connection String

** **To add the connection string with our SQL connection open the “appsettings.json” file .Yes this is the JSON file and this file looks like the below image by default.

In this appsettings.json file add our connection string
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"ConnectionStrings": {   
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=YOURDBSERVER;Database=StudentsDB;user id=SQLID;password=;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true;"   
},

Note
Change the SQL connection string as per your local connection.

Next step is we create a folder named “Data” to create our model and DBContext class.

Creating Model Class for Student

We can create a model by adding a new class file in our DataFolder. Right-click Data folder and click Add > click Class. Enter the class name as StudentMasters and click Add.
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Now in this class, we first create property variable and add a student. We will be using this in our WEB API controller.
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using System;   
usingSystem.Collections.Generic;   
usingSystem.Linq;   
usingSystem.Threading.Tasks;   
usingSystem.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;   
namespace Angular2ASPCORE.Data {   
    publicclassStudentMasters {   
        [Key]   
        publicintStdID {   
            get;   
            set;   
        }   
        [Required]   
        [Display(Name = "Name")]    
        publicstringStdName {   
            get;   
            set;   
        }   
        [Required]   
        [Display(Name = "Email")]    
        publicstring Email {   
            get;   
            set;   
        }   
        [Required]   
        [Display(Name = "Phone")]    
        publicstring Phone {   
            get;   
            set;   
        }   
        publicstring Address {   
            get;   
            set;   
        }   
    }   
}

Creating Database Context

DBContext is Entity Framework Class for establishing the connection to database.

We can create a DBContext class by adding a new class file in our Data Folder. Right-click Data folder and click Add > click Class. Enter the class name as StudentContext and click Add.

In this class, we inherit DbContext and created Dbset for our student's table.
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using System;   
usingSystem.Collections.Generic;   
usingSystem.Linq;   
usingSystem.Threading.Tasks;   
usingMicrosoft.EntityFrameworkCore;   
    
namespace Angular2ASPCORE.Data {   
    publicclassstudentContext: DbContext {   
        publicstudentContext(DbContextOptions < studentContext > options): base(options) {}   
        publicstudentContext() {}   
        publicDbSet < StudentMasters > StudentMasters {   
            get;   
            set;   
        }   
    }   
}

Startup.CS

Now we need to add our database connection string and provider as SQL SERVER. To add this we add the below code in Startup.cs file under ConfigureServices method.
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services.AddDbContext < studentContext > (options =>   
    options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

Step 4 Creating Web API

To create our WEB API Controller, right-click Controllers folder. Click Add and click New Item.

Click ASP.NET in right side > click Web API Controller Class. Enter the name as “StudentMastersAPI.cs” and click Add.
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In this, we are using only the Get method to get all the student results from the database and bind the final result using Angular2 to HTML file.
Here in web API class only add the get method to get all the student details. Here is the code to get all student results using WEB API.
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using System;   
usingSystem.Collections.Generic;   
usingSystem.Linq;   
usingSystem.Threading.Tasks;   
usingMicrosoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;   
using Angular2ASPCORE.Data;   
usingMicrosoft.EntityFrameworkCore;   
usingMicrosoft.AspNetCore.Http;   
// For more information on enabling Web API for empty projects, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=397860 ;  
    
namespace Angular2ASPCORE.Controllers {   
    [Produces("application/json")]   
    [Route("api/StudentMastersAPI")]   
    publicclassStudentMastersAPI: Controller {   
        privatereadonlystudentContext _context;   
    
        publicStudentMastersAPI(studentContext context) {   
            _context = context;   
        }   
    
        // GET: api/values   
    
        [HttpGet]   
        [Route("Student")]   
        publicIEnumerable < StudentMasters > GetStudentMasters() {   
            return _context.StudentMasters;      
        }      
    }   
}

To test it we can run our project and copy the get method API path. Here we can see our API path for get is api/StudentMastersAPI/Student
Run the program and paste the above API path to test our output.

Working with Angular2

We create all Angular2 related Apps, Modules, Services, Components and HTML templates under ClientApp/App folder.
We create “students” folder under app folder to create our typescript and HTML file for displaying Student details.
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Step 5 Creating Component TypeScript

Right-click student folder and click on add new Item. Select Client-side from left side and select TypeScript File and name the file “students.component.ts” and click Add
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In students.component.ts file we have three parts:

import part
component part
class for writing our business logics.

First, we import Angular files to be used in our component -- here we import HTTP for using HTTP client in our Angular2 component.

In component, we have selector and template. Selector is to give a name for this app and in our HTML file, we use this selector name to display in our HTML page.

In template we give our output HTML file name Here we will create an HTML file as “students.component.html”.

Export Class is the main class where we do all our business logic and variable declaration to be used in our component template. In this class, we get the API method result and bind the result to the student array.
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import {   
    Component   
} from '@angular/core';   
import {   
    Http   
} from "@angular/http";   
@Component({   
    selector: 'students',    
    template: require('./students.component.html')   
})   
    
exportclassstudentsComponent {   
    public student: StudentMasters[] = [];   
    myName: string;   
    constructor(http: Http) {   
        this.myName = "Shanu";    
        http.get('/api/StudentMastersAPI/Student').subscribe(result => {   
            this.student = result.json();   
        });   
    }   
}   
exportinterfaceStudentMasters {   
    stdID: number;   
    stdName: string;   
    email: string;   
    phone: string;   
    address: string;   
}

Step 6 Creating Component HTML File

Right-click student folder and click on add new Item. Select Client-side from the left side and select HTML File and name the file as “students.component.html” and click Add.
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Write the below HTML code to bind the result in our HTML page
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<h1>Angular 2 with ASP.NET Core Template Pack, WEB API and EF 1.0.1  </h1> 
<hr /> 
<h2>My Name is : {{myName}}</h2> 
<hr /> 
<h1>Students Details :</h1> 
   
<p *ngIf="!student"><em>Loading Student Details please Wait ! ...</em></p> 
  
<table class='table' style="background-color:#FFFFFF; border:2px #6D7B8D; padding:5px;width:99%;table-layout:fixed;" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" *ngIf="student"> 
  
    <tr style="height: 30px; background-color:#336699 ; color:#FFFFFF ;border: solid 1px #659EC7;"> 
        <td width="100" align="center">Student ID</td> 
        <td width="240" align="center">Student Name</td> 
        <td width="240" align="center">Email</td> 
        <td width="120" align="center">Phone</td> 
        <td width="340" align="center">Address</td> 
  
  
    </tr> 
    <tbody *ngFor="let StudentMasters  of student"> 
        <tr> 
            <td align="center" style="border: solid 1px #659EC7; padding: 5px;table-layout:fixed;"> 
                <span style="color:#9F000F">{{StudentMasters.stdID}}</span> 
            </td> 
  
            <td align="left" style="border: solid 1px #659EC7; padding: 5px;table-layout:fixed;"> 
                <span style="color:#9F000F">{{StudentMasters.stdName}}</span> 
            </td> 
  
            <td align="left" style="border: solid 1px #659EC7; padding: 5px;table-layout:fixed;"> 
                <span style="color:#9F000F">{{StudentMasters.email}}</span> 
            </td> 
  
            <td align="center" style="border: solid 1px #659EC7; padding: 5px;table-layout:fixed;"> 
                <span style="color:#9F000F">{{StudentMasters.phone}}</span> 
            </td> 
  
            <td align="left" style="border: solid 1px #659EC7; padding: 5px;table-layout:fixed;"> 
                <span style="color:#9F000F">{{StudentMasters.address}}</span> 
            </td> 
        </tr> 
    </tbody> 
</table>

We can add our newly created student details menu in the existing menu.

To add our new navigation menu open the “navmenu.component.html” under navmenumenu.write the below code to add our navigation menu link for students.
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<li[routerLinkActive]="['link-active']">   
    <a[routerLink]="['/students']">   
        <spanclass='glyphiconglyphicon-th-list'>   
            </span> Students   
            </a>   
            </li>

Step 8 App Module

App Module is the root for all files and we can find the app.module.ts under ClientApp\app, and import our students component.

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; 
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router'; 
import { UniversalModule } from 'angular2-universal'; 
import { AppComponent } from './components/app/app.component'
import { NavMenuComponent } from './components/navmenu/navmenu.component'; 
import { HomeComponent } from './components/home/home.component'; 
import { FetchDataComponent } from './components/fetchdata/fetchdata.component'; 
import { CounterComponent } from './components/counter/counter.component'; 
import { studentsComponent } from './components/students/students.component'; 
  
@NgModule({ 
    bootstrap: [ AppComponent ], 
    declarations: [ 
        AppComponent, 
        NavMenuComponent, 
        CounterComponent, 
        FetchDataComponent, 
        HomeComponent, 
        studentsComponent 
    ], 
    imports: [ 
        UniversalModule, // Must be first import. This automatically imports BrowserModule, HttpModule, and JsonpModule too. 
        RouterModule.forRoot([ 
            { path: '', redirectTo: 'home', pathMatch: 'full' },  
            { path: 'home', component: HomeComponent }, 
            { path: 'counter', component: CounterComponent }, 
            { path: 'fetch-data', component: FetchDataComponent }, 
            { path: 'students', component: studentsComponent },  
            { path: '**', redirectTo: 'home' }  
        ]) 
    ] 
}) 
export class AppModule { 
}

Step 9 Build and run the Application

Build and run the application and you can see our Student page will be loaded with all Student information.
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First, create the Database and Table in your SQL Server. You can run the SQL Script from this article to create StudentsDB database and StudentMasters Table and also don’t forget to change the Connection string from “appsettings.json".
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ASP.NET Core Angular 2 EF 1.0.1 Web API Using Template Pack

Introduction

Prerequisites

Code Part

Step 1 Create a Database and Table

Step 2 Create ASP.NET Core Angular 2 application

What is new in ASP.NET Core Template Pack?

WWWroot

ClientApp Folder

Controllers Folder:

View Folder:

project.json:

package.json:

appsettings.json:

Step 3 Creating Entity Framework

Adding Connection String

Creating Model Class for Student

Creating Database Context

Step 4 Creating Web API

Working with Angular2

Step 5 Creating Component TypeScript

Step 6 Creating Component HTML File

Step 7 Adding Navigation menu

Step 8 App Module

Step 9 Build and run the Application

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ASP.NET Core Angular 2 EF 1.0.1 Web API Using Template Pack

Introduction

Prerequisites

Code Part

Step 1 Create a Database and Table

Step 2 Create ASP.NET Core Angular 2 application

What is new in ASP.NET Core Template Pack?

WWWroot

ClientApp Folder

Controllers Folder:

** View Folder:**

project.json:

package.json:

appsettings.json:

Step 3 Creating Entity Framework

Adding Connection String

Creating Model Class for Student

Creating Database Context

Step 4 Creating Web API

Working with Angular2

Step 5 Creating Component TypeScript

Step 6 Creating Component HTML File

Step 7 Adding Navigation menu

Step 8 App Module

Step 9 Build and run the Application

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