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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 the master layout


You've added the CSS and JavaScript files needed to create the master layout file for your project. Next, you need to create a home controller as well as a master layout file. To do this, complete the following steps:

  1. Add a new empty controller called HomeController to the Controllers folder by right-clicking on it and selecting Add | New Item....

  2. Select MVC Controllers Class from the list of project items and click on the Add button.

  3. Next, right-click on the Views folder in your project and navigate to Add | New Folder. Name the folder Shared.

  4. Right-click on the newly created Shared folder and navigate to Add | New Item...

  5. Select MVC View Layout Page in the list of project items and keep the name of the file as _Layout.cshtml and click on Add.

  6. Open the index.html file in the Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard template source files and copy its contents to the _Layout.cshtml file.

  7. Change the <head> tag to reference the styles.css folder in the correct folder, as illustrated...

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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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