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Pieter van der Westhuizen
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Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Creating a Bootstrap button Tag Helper


Tag Helpers are a new addition to ASP.NET MVC Core and can be used to generate HTML markup. The syntax of Tag Helpers is similar to traditional HTML elements, but is still processed on the server.

Although traditional HTML Helpers are still available, Tag Helpers are intended as an alternative, if not replacement, syntax.

To create your own custom Tag Helper that will generate a Bootstrap button, complete the following steps:

  1. Add a new folder called TagHelpers to your project.

  2. Create a new class called BootstrapButtonTagHelper in the TagHelpers folder.

  3. Change the BootstrapButtonTagHelper to inherit from the TagHelper class, which is a built-in class of the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.TagHelpers package.

  4. In order to use the TagHelper class, add the following to the top of the BootstrapButtonTagHelper class:

            using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.TagHelpers; 
    
  5. Next, add two properties, called Color and Style, to the class. The two properties' data types will...

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Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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