kemobyte / prettifier

Prettifier App - ASP.NET MVC

Prettifier

Prettifier App - ASP.NET MVC

Get Started

This is an ASP.NET MVC 5 Web application project with Entity Framework 6 and developed using a Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. This project targets .NET Framework 4.6

Prerequisites:

1- Install Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. Download from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532606&clcid=0x409

• Ensure Visual Studio Web Development Tools is checked to get installed during Visual Studio 2015 installation
• Ensure SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is checked to get installed during Visual Studio 2015 installation

2- Install NuGet latest (v3.2.0) Package Manager, Download latest version from https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/latest/nuget.exe

Database

Prittifer Databse will be created automatically as localDB stored in the App_Data folder the first time you run the project in the browser.

How to Build the Prettifier

1- Inside the Source Folder, Open the solution ".sln" file in Visual Studio.
2- Build the solution, which automatically installs the missing NuGet packages.
3- Run the application in the browser from Visual Studio in F5/CTRL+F5

How To Test?

Copy/paste the following text to test prettifier app: [I've sold my house for 10000000 and bought another house for 2000000000 although I wanted the other one but it was too much expensive costs around 1000000000000.]

Source Code Overview

The Prettifier porject folder includes the following folders and files

• App_Data folder - Holds the SQL Server localDB database file.
• Content - Holds CSS files.
• Controllers - Holds controller classes.
• Migrations folder - Holds EF Code First migrations code
• Models folder - Holds model classes.
• Properties or MyProject folder - Project properties.
• Scripts folder - Script files.
• Views folder - Holds view classes.
• Visual Studio project file (.csproj or .vbproj).
• packages.config - Specifies NuGet packages included in the project.
• Global.asax file - Includes database initializer code.
• Web.config file - Includes the connection string to the database.

Known Issues

• A known issue with NuGet restore is it doesn't copy content of the packages to the applications folders. For large size content (Rotativa), I had to create MSBuild post-build event to copy the files to the applications folder.

xcopy /Q /Y "$(SolutionDir)\packages\Rotativa.1.6.4\content\Rotativa\wkhtmltopdf.exe" "$(ProjectDir)\Rotativa"