Introduction

In this post, you will see how to bind data in datatable plugin using MVC5, AngularJS, and EntityFramework, JSON.

Prerequisites

As I said earlier, we are going to use datatable plugin to display the data in our MVC application. For this, you must have Visual Studio 2015 (.NET Framework 4.5.2) and SQL Server.

SQL Database part

Here, you can find the scripts to create database and table.

Create Database
  1. USE[master]
  2. GO
  3. /****** Object: Database [CustomerDB] Script Date: 9/11/2016 4:54:28 AM ******/
  4. CREATE DATABASE[CustomerDB]
  5. CONTAINMENT = NONE
  6. ON PRIMARY
  7. (NNAME = N 'CustomerDB', FILENAME = N 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CustomerDB.mdf', SIZE = 3072 KB, MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH = 1024 KB)
  8. LOG ON
  9. (NNAME = N 'CustomerDB_log', FILENAME = N 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CustomerDB_log.ldf', SIZE = 1024 KB, MAXSIZE = 2048 GB, FILEGROWTH = 10 % )
  10. GO
  11. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 110
  12. GO
  13. IF(1 = FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled'))
  14. begin
  15. EXEC[CustomerDB].[dbo].[sp_fulltext_database] @action = 'enable'
  16. end
  17. GO
  18. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT OFF
  19. GO
  20. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET ANSI_NULLS OFF
  21. GO
  22. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
  23. GO
  24. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF
  25. GO
  26. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET ARITHABORT OFF
  27. GO
  28. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF
  29. GO
  30. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON
  31. GO
  32. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF
  33. GO
  34. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON
  35. GO
  36. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF
  37. GO
  38. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT GLOBAL
  39. GO
  40. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF
  41. GO
  42. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF
  43. GO
  44. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
  45. GO
  46. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF
  47. GO
  48. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET DISABLE_BROKER
  49. GO
  50. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF
  51. GO
  52. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF
  53. GO
  54. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET TRUSTWORTHY OFF
  55. GO
  56. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF
  57. GO
  58. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE
  59. GO
  60. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT OFF
  61. GO
  62. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET HONOR_BROKER_PRIORITY OFF
  63. GO
  64. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
  65. GO
  66. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET MULTI_USER
  67. GO
  68. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM
  69. GO
  70. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET DB_CHAINING OFF
  71. GO
  72. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET FILESTREAM(NON_TRANSACTED_ACCESS = OFF)
  73. GO
  74. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 0 SECONDS
  75. GO
  76. ALTER DATABASE[CustomerDB] SET READ_WRITE
  77. GO
Create Table
  1. USE[CustomerDB]
  2. GO
  3. /****** Object: Table [dbo].[Customers] Script Date: 9/11/2016 4:53:43 AM ******/
  4. SET ANSI_NULLS ON
  5. GO
  6. SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
  7. GO
  8. SET ANSI_PADDING ON
  9. GO
  10. CREATE TABLE[dbo].[Customers](
  11. [CustomerID][int] NOT NULL, [CustomerName][varchar](50) NULL, [CustomerEmail][varchar](50) NULL, [CustomerZipCode][int] NULL, [CustomerCountry][varchar](50) NULL, [CustomerCity][varchar](50) NULL,
  12. CONSTRAINT[PK_Customers] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED(
  13. [CustomerID] ASC
  14. ) WITH(PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON[PRIMARY]
  15. ) ON[PRIMARY]
  16. GO
  17. SET ANSI_PADDING OFF GO
After creating the table, you can add some records.

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Create your MVC application

Open Visual Studio and select File.
Click New Project.
A new dialog box will pop up with the name New Project. Select ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework).
Name your project and click OK.

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The next step is to select template. In this example, we need to choose MVC template and click OK.

creating

After creating the project, it’s time to add ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
Let’s Go.

Adding ADO.NET Entity Data Model

For adding ADO.NET Entity Framework, right click on the project name.
Click Add >> Add New Item.
A new dialog box will open. Inside Visual C#, select Data >> ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
Enter the name for your Dbcontext model as DbContextCustomer.
Finally, click Add.



Now, we are going to choose EF Designer from database, as show below.



After clicking Next button, a new dialog will pop up with the name connection properties. You need to enter your server name.
In order to connect to a database panel, select the desired database via dropdown List (Customer DB).
Then, click OK.



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In the final step, the Entity Data Model Wizard will pop up for choosing object which we want to use.
In our case, we are going to choose Customers table and click Finish.
Finally, we see that EDMX model generates Customers class.



Make sure that our EDMX file has added in our project, as given below.



Create a Controller

Now, we are going to create a Controller. Right click on the Controllers folder > Add > Controller> select "MVC5 Controller – Empty" > click Add.

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Enter Controller name (‘CustomersController’).



CustomersController.cs
  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.Linq;
  4. using System.Web;
  5. using System.Web.Mvc;
  6. namespace ANGULAR_DATATABLE.Controllers {
  7. public class CustomersController: Controller {
  8. //Db Context
  9. private CustomerDBEntities context = new CustomerDBEntities();
  11. // GET: Customers
  12. public ActionResult Index() {
  13. return View();
  14. }
  15. public JsonResult GetCustomerList() {
  16. var CustomerList = context.Customers.ToList();
  17. return Json(CustomerList, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
  18. }
  19. }
  20. }
As you can see, I am creating GetCustomers() action to retrieve data from Customers table in JSON format.

Adding View

For adding View, just right click on Index() action, select Add View. A new dialog will pop up. Write a name for your View, and click Add.

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace ANGULAR_DATATABLE.Controllers { public class CustomersController: Controller { //Db Context private CustomerDBEntities context = new CustomerDBEntities(); // GET: Customers public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } public JsonResult GetCustomerList() { var CustomerList = context.Customers.ToList(); return Json(CustomerList, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); } } }

Note

Don’t forget to download the following libraries from jqxwidgets.
  1. <!-- CSS -->
  2. <
  3. link href = "~/Content/jqx.base.css"
  4. rel = "stylesheet" / >
  5. <!-- JS -->
  6. <
  7. script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.7/angular.min.js" > < /script> <
  8. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxcore.js" > < /script> <
  9. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxangular.js" > < /script> <
  10. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxbuttons.js" > < /script> <
  11. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxscrollbar.js" > < /script> <
  12. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxdata.js" > < /script> <
  13. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxdatatable.js" > < /script> <
  14. script src = "~/Scripts/demos.js" > < /script>
Index cshtml
  1. @ {
  2. ViewBag.Title = "CustomerView";
  3. }
  4. @section scripts {
  5. <!-- CSS -->
  6. <
  7. link href = "~/Content/jqx.base.css"
  8. rel = "stylesheet" / >
  9. <!-- JS -->
  10. <
  11. script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.4.7/angular.min.js" > < /script> <
  12. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxcore.js" > < /script> <
  13. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxangular.js" > < /script> <
  14. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxbuttons.js" > < /script> <
  15. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxscrollbar.js" > < /script> <
  16. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxdata.js" > < /script> <
  17. script src = "~/Scripts/jqxdatatable.js" > < /script> <
  18. script src = "~/Scripts/demos.js" > < /script> <
  19. script type = "text/javascript" >
  20. var myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['jqwidgets']);
  21. myApp.controller('DataTableCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
  22. $scope.gridSettings = {
  23. width: 850,
  24. pageable: true,
  25. pagerButtonsCount: 10,
  26. source: new $.jqx.dataAdapter({
  27. dataType: "json",
  28. dataFields: [{
  29. name: 'CustomerName',
  30. type: 'string'
  31. }, {
  32. name: 'CustomerEmail',
  33. type: 'string'
  34. }, {
  35. name: 'CustomerZipCode',
  36. type: 'int'
  37. }, {
  38. name: 'CustomerCountry',
  39. type: 'string'
  40. }, {
  41. name: 'CustomerCity',
  42. type: 'string'
  43. }],
  44. id: 'CustomerID',
  45. url: 'GetCustomerList'
  46. }),
  47. columnsResize: true,
  48. columns: [{
  49. text: 'CustomerName',
  50. dataField: 'CustomerName',
  51. width: 300
  52. }, {
  53. text: 'CustomerEmail',
  54. dataField: 'CustomerEmail',
  55. width: 300
  56. }, {
  57. text: 'CustomerZipCode',
  58. dataField: 'CustomerZipCode',
  59. width: 300
  60. }, {
  61. text: 'CustomerCountry',
  62. dataField: 'CustomerCountry',
  63. width: 300
  64. }, {
  65. text: 'CustomerCity',
  66. dataField: 'CustomerCity',
  67. width: 300
  68. }]
  69. };
  70. }]); <
  71. /script>
  72. } <
  73. div ng - app = "myApp"
  74. ng - controller = "DataTableCtrl" >
  75. <
  76. h2 > Data Binding to JSON data in AngularJS DataTable < /h2> <
  77. jqx - data - table jqx - settings = "gridSettings" > < /jqx-data-table> <
  78. /div>
Output