Learn How to Configure Lightswitch With MVC Part 3

Introduction

This article provides a walkthrough of how to use MVC with Visual Studio LightSwitch. In my previous articles we saw how to get started by creating a LightSwitch application. You can get them from the following:

Learn How to Configure Lightswitch With MVC

Learn How to configure Lightswitch with MVC Part 2

Now let's continue by creating the remaining.

Step 1 Right-click on the server application and add a Global.asax file and use the following code.

The call passes the the Routes collection of the Global RouteTable as a parameter to the RegisterRoutes method, that then populates the routes collection with pre-defined route templates for the application.

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
namespace LightSwitchApplication
{
public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
protected void Application_Start()
{
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}
}
}

Step 2: Now Let's create a MVC controller under the Conrollers folder and add the following implementation.

using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace LightSwitchApplication.Controllers
{
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
}
}

Step 3: Let's create a MVC view under the Views folder.

Right-click on the Views folder and add a Home Folder and create a MVC5 Razor view under it as shown below.

@{
Layout = null;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,
initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />
<title>Welcome to Lightswitch with Model View Controller</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<h1>Hello from MVC!</h1>
<a href="HTMLClient">LightSwitch Application</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Run the application. We will get the following output.

Summary

In this small article, I explained how to prepare a LightSwitch application to use MVC, so now we are able to follow the structure of MVC in Lightswitch..