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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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Media object


The media object component can be used to build hierarchical style lists such as blog comments or tweets. In the following example application, we'll use it to return a search result view when the user searches for employees. Our model will have a 'ReportsTo' field indicating which employee other employees report to; the media object component would be ideal to indicate this visually.

The method located in SearchController that searches for the employees and returns the results to the view is as follows:

public IActionResult SearchEmployees(string query) 
{ 
    ViewBag.SearchQuery = query; 
    var employees = GetEmployees(); 
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(query)) 
    { 
        var results = employees.Where(p => p.Name.Contains(query)); 
        return View(results); 
    } 
    return View(employees); 
} 

The preceding code will retrieve a list of employees using the GetEmployees method and, if the query parameter is...

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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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