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ASP.NET Core MVC – All about Tag Helpers

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers series

Introduction Tag Helpers provide us with means to change and enhance existing HTML elements in our views. Therefore, we add them to our views, and afterwards, they are processed by the Razor Templating engine which in return creates an HTML and serves it to the browser. Few Tag Helpers actually act as elements or actual […]



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ASP.NET Core MVC – Caching Tag Helpers

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers series

 Introduction Caching can significantly improve our application load time and responsiveness. What can we cache with cache Tag Helpers? Well, we cache HTML content. We usually cache content that does not change frequently. In one of the previous posts, we talked about Tag Helpers. We saw what Tag Helpers do, how we can use them […]



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ASP.NET Core MVC – Custom Tag Helpers

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers series

Introduction In on of the previous posts we talked about Tag Helpers, we also talked about caching Tag Helpers and form Tag Helpers. By creating our custom Tag Helpers, we have an ability to extend existing HTML elements or create our custom HTML elements. A Tag Helper is any class that implements ITagHelper interface. However, MVC […]



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ASP.NET Core MVC – Tag Helper Components

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers series

Tag Helper Components – Introduction We already talked about Tag Helpers in several posts before. This time we will be talking about something related. ASP.NET Core 2 is here and it brings us a new feature – Tag Helper Components. Tag Helper Components are responsible for generating or modifying a specific piece of HTML. They […]



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