Creating and implementing the BookLibraryAddEdit page

In the previous section, we created and implemented the BookLibraryListing Razor template page that will be used to display a list of all book items that have been previously added to the BookItem database table. Our next step is to begin creating the BookLibraryAddEdit Razor template page—which will be used to allow the user to create a new book item or edit an existing book item—and save this to our BookItem database table.

 

Let's start by creating the user interface for our BookLibraryAddEdit by going through the following steps:

1. Right-click on the Views folder and choose Add | New File... from the pop-up menu, as you did when creating the BookLibraryListing, in the Creating and implementing the BookLibraryListing page section in this chapter.
2. Next, choose the Preprocessed Razor Template option under the Text Templating section and enter BookLibraryAddEdit as the name of the Razor template to be created.
3. Finally, click on the New button...