QuietEvolver/InventoryPreparedness.Solution

https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/to-do-list-animal-shelter-and-inventory

Inventory - Disaster Preparedness

By Hyung Jin Kim, Noah Atkinson, Vera Weikel

This is a project to build Basic Web Application using ASP .Net, EF Core, MVC.

Technologies Used

• .Net 6 SDK
• C#
• EFCore
• ASP.Net MVC
• Razor

Goals/Objectives

This project shows how to connect an ASP.NET Core MVC project to a MySQL database using Entity Framework Core.

There are multiple branches in this repo that are described more below.

Description

Make a website where users can inventory their collections. This collection could be anything from records to rocks to board games, depending on your interest. The application should have full create and read functionality.

Further Exploration If you complete the projects above with time to spare, tackle these additional features:

Create a Search() method in either the Inventory or Animal Shelter application. It should take the name of the animal or item as an argument and return any animals or items that match. Let users choose what properties to search by. For instance, this could be type or age of animal in the animal shelter application or date acquired or keyword in the inventory application. Continue on to tonight's homework and add update and delete functionality to your application.

Database Architecture

How To Run This Project

Install Tools

Install the tools that are introduced in this series of lessons on LearnHowToProgram.com.

Set up the Databases

Follow the instructions in the LearnHowToProgram.com lesson "Creating a Test Database: Exporting and Importing Databases with MySQL Workbench" to use the inventorypreparedness_with_ef_core_dump.sql file located at the top level of this repo to create a new database in MySQL Workbench with the name inventory_preparedness_with_ef_core.

Set Up and Run Project

1. Clone this repo.
2. Open the terminal and navigate to this project's production directory called "InventoryPreparedness".
3. Within the production directory "InventoryPreparedness", create a new file called appsettings.json.
4. Within appsettings.json, put in the following code, replacing the uid and pwd values with your own username and password for MySQL. For the LearnHowToProgram.com lessons, we always assume the uid is root and the pwd is epicodus.

{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
      "DefaultConnection": "Server=localhost;Port=3306;database=inventory_preparedness_with_ef_core;uid=[YOUR-MYSQL-LOGIN-NAME];pwd=[YOUR-MYSQL-PASSWORD];"
  }
}

5. Within the production directory "InventoryPreparedness", run dotnet watch run in the command line to start the project in development mode with a watcher.
6. Open the browser to https://localhost:5001. If you cannot access localhost:5001 it is likely because you have not configured a .NET developer security certificate for HTTPS. To learn about this, review this lesson: Redirecting to HTTPS and Issuing a Security Certificate.

Available Branches

1_ef_core_setup: This is the default branch with the starter code for the To Do List project as an ASP.NET Core MVC web application that is configured to use Entity Framework Core to communicate with a MySQL database. This branch includes the code we added after working through the following lessons:

• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/introducing-entity-framework-core
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/configuration-for-entity-framework-core

2_create_read_and_details_with_html_helpers: This branch includes the code we added after working through the following lessons:

• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/read-with-ef-core
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/create-with-ef-core
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/html-helper-methods-lambda-expressions-and-string-interpolation
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/showing-item-details-with-ef-core
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/further-exploration-with-testing

3_update_and_delete: This branch includes the code we added after working through the following lessons:

• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/update-with-ef-core
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/delete-with-ef-core

4_one_to_many_relationship: This branch includes the code we added after working through the following lessons:

• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/establishing-a-one-to-many-relationship-with-navigation-properties
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/using-viewbag
• https://www.learnhowtoprogram.com/c-and-net/database-basics/create-and-update-with-a-one-to-many-relationship

Known Bugs

• None

License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Copyright (c) 2023 Hyung Jin Kim, Noah Atkinson, Vera Weikel