Steps in creating a new MVC application

Create the database
Create the project/solution in Visual Studio
- don’t give the project the same name (in the same case) as one of the tables or the compiler will become confused between types and namespaces
- choose MVC and optionally Web API and unit tests
- leave authentication as Individual User Accounts
Create an application in IIS that points to the project
Change the Web properties for the project to use Local IIS
Update all Nuget packages in all projects in the solution
Add the CAS Nuget package
- Update the web.config
  - configuration/system.web/authentication/forms
  - configuration/casClientConfig
- AppStart\FilterConfig.cs – add filters.Add(new System.Web.Mvc.AuthorizeAttribute());
  - See https://mikebarram.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/requiring-authentication-for-a-whole-asp-net-mvc-site/
- Edit Controllers\AccountController.cs – mostly copy from existing applications
- Add Session_Start to global.asax.cs
- Create Views\Shared\NotAuthorised.cshtml
- Create Role Provider if needed
Web.config
- Add <pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion=”4.0″ /> to System.Web
Add Nuget TinyMCE.JQuery
- See https://mikebarram.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/adding-wysiyyg-editors-to-text-fields-in-mvc/
- Create folder Views\Shared\EditorTemplates
- Create 1 line template file WYSIWYG.cshtml @Html.TextArea(“”, new { @class = “wysiwyg” })
- Create a bundle for TinyMCE in App_Start\BundleConfig.cs
```
bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/tinymce").Include(
"~/Scripts/tinymce/tinymce.min.js"));
```
Add favicon.ico to root
Add logo.png and user.png to Content (remember to include them in the project)
Update Content\site.css from an application that the new project should look like
Create your data model
- Don’t copy the connection string from another project as that will contain the details of the model in that project. Instead, create a new connection string for your model (you can copy the details of the server from an old connection string)
- When editing the entity model diagram, you can change the Entity Container Name to something more friendly and that will change the name of the connection string in the web.config
- If a connection string called “DefaultConnection” has been created in the web.config, you will want to update Models\IdentityModels.cs to use your main connection string instead of that one – this will be the connection string that you have just set the name of in the step above.
Start creating controllers and views…
Auditing – if you want to automatically set the values in certain fields if they have set names (e.g. createddate):
- Create a folder called Helpers
- Create a partial class that overrides the SaveChanges() method of the entities (copy and modify from existing project). Method is loosely based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7641552/overriding-savechanges-and-setting-modifieddate-but-how-do-i-set-modifiedby