Tag: MVC5

MVC5 – or rather, ASP.NET MVC 5 – is Microsoft’s web framework. It’s a model-view-controller (hence the name MVC) framework for building dynamic web sites with clean separation of concerns.

Borrowing from Wikipedia:

The ASP.NET MVC is a web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web Forms component which is proprietary.

Being mostly open-source, you can find the code here:
https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetWebStack

Fore more help getting started, see this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/mvc/overview/getting-started/introduction/

My posts in this category (with this tag) usually concern all kinds of web-development stuff I did before ASP.NET Core.

Entity Framework's Update-Database throwing an error

Fixing “An error occurred while updating the entries” while running code-first migrations in MVC 5 app

This post describes an issue with EF’s code-first migrations, when mapping between DB’s DateTime (datetime2) and C#’s DateTime simply fails, and results in the Update-Database cmdlet failing, too. It is more or less a prime example of a situation, where the error itself tells very little about the actual issue,…Continue reading Fixing “An error occurred while updating the entries” while running code-first migrations in MVC 5 app