In this post, I’m going to discuss about the CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) Operations in an ASP.NET MVC application by using raw ADO.NET. Most of the new learners, who started to learn MVC asked this frequently. That’s the main reason I wrote this tutorial. In this article I'm going to explain step by step procedure from DB table creation to all MVC files.
Software Requirements
For this particular application, I have used the following configuration:
- Visual Studio 2015
- SQL Server 2008
In order to keep my hand clean, I have used a simple table to do the CRUD operation.
Step 1: Execute the following script on your DB.
- SET ANSI_NULLS ON
- GO
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- SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
- GO
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- SET ANSI_PADDING ON
- GO
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- CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblStudent](
- [student_id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
- [student_name] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
- [stduent_age] [int] NOT NULL,
- [student_gender] [varchar](6) NOT NULL,
- CONSTRAINT [PK_tblStudent] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
- (
- [student_id] ASC
- )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
- ) ON [PRIMARY]
-
- GO
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- SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
- GO
Step 2: Create an “Empty” ASP.NET MVC application in Visual Studio 2015.
Step 3:
Add an “Empty” Controller by right clicking on the “Controller” folder. Select “Add” then select “Controller..”. In the popup select “MVC 5 Controller”, then click “Add”. In the next popup you should give the name “CRUDController”.
After adding the controller, you may notice as per the “convention” in ASP.NET MVC under the “Views” folder, a new folder named “CRUD” also created.
Step 4:
Our DB access code are going to be placed inside the “Models” folder. Model is just a “Class” file. So we are going to create a Model class for our purpose as below:
- Right click on the “Model” folder. In the context menu select “Add” then choose “New item..”.
- In the popup, select “Code” then choose “Class” and name the class file as “CRUDModel” then click “Add”. That’s all!
Step 5:
Till now we created classes for “Controller” and “Model”. We didn’t create any views till now. In this step we are going to create a view, which is going to act as a “home” page for our application. In order to create the view:
- Right click on the “CRUD” folder under the “Views” folder in the context menu select “Add” then choose “View..”.
- In the popup, give “View name” and uncheck the “Use a layout page” checkbox. Finally, click the “Add” button.
Step 6:
We don’t have a controller named “Default”, which is specified in the “RouteConfig.cs” file. We need to change the controller’s name as “CRUD”, in the default route values.
Route.config
- using System;
- using System.Collections.Generic;
- using System.Linq;
- using System.Web;
- using System.Web.Mvc;
- using System.Web.Routing;
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- namespace MVCWithADO
- {
- public class RouteConfig
- {
- public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
- {
- routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
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- routes.MapRoute(
- name: "Default",
- url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
- defaults: new { controller = "CRUD", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
- );
- }
- }
- }
After the above change, just press F5 in Visual Studio, to verify that our application works fine without any error.
Step 7:
In order to achieve the complete CRUD operation, I’m going to add number of views as described in the Step 5. Here is the complete list of views and it’s purpose.
View | Purpose |
Home.cshtml | This is the default view. Loaded when the application launched. Will display all the records in the table |
Create.cshtml | Displays control’s to insert the record. Will be rendered when the “Add New Record” button clicked on the “Home.cshtml” view. |
Edit.cshtml | Displays control’s to edit the record. Will be rendered when the “Edit” button clicked on the “Home.cshtml” view. |
Step 8:
The model class, contains all the “Data Access” logic. In other words, it will interact with Database and give it back to “View” through “Controller”.
CRUDModel.cs
- using System.Data;
- using System.Data.SqlClient;
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- namespace MVCWithADO.Models
- {
- public class CRUDModel
- {
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- public DataTable GetAllStudents()
- {
- DataTable dt = new DataTable();
- string strConString =@"Data Source=WELCOME-PC\SQLSERVER2008;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Integrated Security=True";
- using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConString))
- {
- con.Open();
- SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("Select * from tblStudent", con);
- SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
- da.Fill(dt);
- }
- return dt;
- }
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- public DataTable GetStudentByID(int intStudentID)
- {
- DataTable dt = new DataTable();
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- string strConString = @"Data Source=WELCOME-PC\SQLSERVER2008;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Integrated Security=True";
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- using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConString))
- {
- con.Open();
- SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("Select * from tblStudent where student_id=" + intStudentID, con);
- SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
- da.Fill(dt);
- }
- return dt;
- }
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- public int UpdateStudent(int intStudentID, string strStudentName, string strGender, int intAge)
- {
- string strConString = @"Data Source=WELCOME-PC\SQLSERVER2008;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Integrated Security=True";
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- using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConString))
- {
- con.Open();
- string query = "Update tblStudent SET student_name=@studname, student_age=@studage , student_gender=@gender where student_id=@studid";
- SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, con);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@studname", strStudentName);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@studage", intAge);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@gender", strGender);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@studid", intStudentID);
- return cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
- }
- }
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- public int InsertStudent(string strStudentName, string strGender, int intAge)
- {
- string strConString = @"Data Source=WELCOME-PC\SQLSERVER2008;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Integrated Security=True";
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- using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConString))
- {
- con.Open();
- string query = "Insert into tblStudent (student_name, student_age,student_gender) values(@studname, @studage , @gender)";
- SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, con);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@studname", strStudentName);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@studage", intAge);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@gender", strGender);
- return cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
- }
- }
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- public int DeleteStudent(int intStudentID)
- {
- string strConString = @"Data Source=WELCOME-PC\SQLSERVER2008;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Integrated Security=True";
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- using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConString))
- {
- con.Open();
- string query = "Delete from tblStudent where student_id=@studid";
- SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, con);
- cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@studid", intStudentID);
- return cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
- }
- }
- }
- }
CRUDController.cs
In an MVC application, controller is the entry point. The following code contains all the action methods for the complete CRUD operation.
Views
Views are combination of markup as well as server side code. As you noticed the views "Home" and "Edit" takes the ADO.NET object Datatable as a model. Also, for simplicity i don't use "Layout".
Home.cshtml
- @using System.Data
- @using System.Data.SqlClient
- @model System.Data.DataTable
- @{
- Layout = null;
- }
-
- <!DOCTYPE html>
-
- <html>
- <head>
- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
- <title>Home</title>
- </head>
- <body>
- <form method="post" name="Display">
- <h2>Home</h2>
- @Html.ActionLink("Add New Record", "Insert")
- <br />
- @{
- if (Model.Rows.Count > 0)
- {
- <table border="1">
- <thead>
- <tr>
- <td>
- Student ID
- </td>
- <td>
- Name
- </td>
- <td>
- Age
- </td>
- <td>Gender</td>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- @foreach (DataRow dr in Model.Rows)
- {
- <tr>
- <td>@dr["student_id"].ToString() </td>
- <td>@dr["student_name"].ToString() </td>
- <td>@dr["student_age"].ToString() </td>
- <td>@dr["student_gender"].ToString() </td>
- <td>@Html.ActionLink("Edit ", "Edit", new { StudentID = dr["student_id"].ToString() })</td>
- <td>@Html.ActionLink("| Delete", "Delete", new { StudentID = dr["student_id"].ToString() })</td>
- </tr>
- }
-
- </table>
- <br />
- }
- else
- {
- <span> No records found!!</span>
- }
- }
-
- </form>
- </body>
- </html>
Create.cshtml
- <!DOCTYPE html>
- <html>
- <head>
- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
- <title>Insert</title>
- </head>
- <body>
- <form id="frmDetail" method="post" action="@Url.Action("InsertRecord")">
- Enter Name:<input name="txtName" />
- <br />
- Enter Age:<input name="txtAge" />
- <br />
- Select Gender: <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male" checked>Male
- <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female">Female
- <br />
- <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="action" />
- <input type="submit" value="Cancel" name="action" />
- </form>
- </body>
- </html>
Edit.cshtml
- @using System.Data
- @using System.Data.SqlClient
- @model System.Data.DataTable
- @{
- ViewBag.Title = "EditView";
- }
- <html>
- <head>
- <script type="text/javascript">
- </script>
- </head>
- <body>
- <form id="frmDetail" method="post" action="@Url.Action("UpdateRecord")">
- Enter Name:<input name="txtName" value="@Model.Rows[0]["student_name"]" />
- <br />
- Enter Age:<input name="txtAge" value="@Model.Rows[0]["student_age"]" />
- <br />
- Select Gender:
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- @if (Model.Rows[0]["student_gender"].ToString().ToLower() == "male")
- {
- <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male" checked /> @Html.Raw("Male")
- <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female" /> @Html.Raw("Female")
- }
- else
- {
- <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male"> @Html.Raw("Male")
- <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female" checked /> @Html.Raw("Female")
- }
- <input type="hidden" name="hdnID" value="@Model.Rows[0]["student_id"]" />
- <br />
- <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="action" />
- <input type="submit" value="Cancel" name="action"/>
- </form>
- </body>
- </html>
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