Introduction

Angular Project Introduction
Installation
Database
Create MVC Web Application
Adding Model in to the Application
Adding the Web API Controller to the Application
Create the Angular Service
Creating Angular Components
Defining route and navigation menu for our Application
Run your application

Angular Project Introduction

In this article, we are going to create a web application using ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Angular 5 with the help of Entity Framework Core database first approach.

we are using Angular Forms with required field validations on the client side.

Installation

Install .NET Core 2.1 or above SDK from here.
Install the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition from here.
Download and install the latest version of Node.js from here..
SQL Server 2008 or above

Database

Create one database name like CRUD_Angular5_core2 Create two table

CREATE TABLE tblEmployee (

EmployeeID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,

Name varchar(20) NOT NULL ,

City varchar(20) NOT NULL ,

Department varchar(20) NOT NULL ,

Gender varchar(6) NOT NULL

)

CREATE TABLE tblCities (

CityID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,

CityName varchar(20) NOT NULL

)

Now, we will put some data into the tblCities table. We will be using this table to bind a dropdown list in our web application from which the desired city can be selected. Use the following insert statements.

INSERT INTO tblCities VALUES('Surat');

INSERT INTO tblCities VALUES('Mumbai');

INSERT INTO tblCities VALUES('Amreli');

INSERT INTO tblCities VALUES('Vadodara');

INSERT INTO tblCities VALUES(‘Bharuch’);

Create MVC Web Application

Open Visual Studio and select File >> New >> Project.
After selecting the project, a "New Project" dialog will open. Select .NET Core inside Visual C# menu from the left panel.
Then, select “ASP.NET Core Web Application” from available project types. Put the name of the project as CrudInAngular5With.NetCore2.1 and press OK.

After clicking on OK, a new dialog will open asking you to select the project template. You can observe two drop-down menus at the top left of the template window. Select “.NET Core” and “ASP.NET Core 2” from these dropdowns. Then, select “Angular” template and press OK.

Now, our project will be created. You can observe the folder structure in Solution Explorer as shown in the below image.

Adding the Model to the Application

We are using Entity Framework core database first approach to create our models. Navigate to Tools >> NuGet Package Manager >> Package Manager Console.
We have to install the package for the database provider that we are targeting which is SQL Server in this case. Hence run the following command:

Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 2.1.1
Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 2.1.1

After you have installed both the packages, we will scaffold our model from the database tables using the following command:

Scaffold-DbContext "Your connection string here" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Models

Do not forget to put your own connection string (inside " "). After this command gets executed successfully you can observe a Models folder has been created and it contains three class files CRUD_Angular5_core2Context.cs, TblCities.cs and TblEmployee.cs. And hence we have successfully created our Models using EF core database first approach.

Now, we will create one more class file to handle database related operations

Right click on Models folder and select Add >> Class. Name your class EmployeeDataAccessLayer.cs and click Add button. At this point of time, the Models folder will have the following structure.

Open EmployeeDataAccessLayer.cs and put the following code to handle database operations.

using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CrudInAngular5With.NetCore2.Models

{

public class EmployeeDataAccessLayer

{

CRUD_Angular5_core2Context db = new CRUD_Angular5_core2Context();

public IEnumerable GetAllEmployees()

{

try

{

return db.TblEmployee.ToList();

}

catch

{

throw;

}

//To Add new employee record

public int AddEmployee(TblEmployee employee)

{

try

{

db.TblEmployee.Add(employee);

db.SaveChanges();

return 1;

}

catch

{

throw;

}

//To Update the records of a particluar employee

public int UpdateEmployee(TblEmployee employee)

{

try

{

db.Entry(employee).State = EntityState.Modified;

db.SaveChanges();

return 1;

}

catch

{

throw;

}

//Get the details of a particular employee

public TblEmployee GetEmployeeData(int id)

{

try

{

TblEmployee employee = db.TblEmployee.Find(id);

return employee;

}

catch

{

throw;

}

//To Delete the record of a particular employee

public int DeleteEmployee(int id)

{

try

{

TblEmployee emp = db.TblEmployee.Find(id);

db.TblEmployee.Remove(emp);

db.SaveChanges();

return 1;

}

catch

{

throw;

}

//To Get the list of Cities

public List GetCities()

{

List lstCity = new List();

lstCity = (from CityList in db.TblCities select CityList).ToList();

return lstCity;

}

Adding the Web API Controller to the Application

Right click on Controllers folder and select Add >> New Item.

An “Add New Item” dialog box will open. Select ASP.NET from the left panel, then select “Web API Controller Class” from templates panel and put the name as EmployeeController.cs. Press OK.

This will create our Web API EmployeeController class. We will put all our business logic in this controller. We will call the methods of EmployeeDataAccessLayer to fetch data and pass on the data to the Angular frontend.

Open EmployeeController.cs file and put the following code into it.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using CrudInAngular5With.NetCore2.Models;

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

// For more information on enabling Web API for empty projects, visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=397860

namespace CrudInAngular5With.NetCore2.Controllers

{

public class EmployeeController : Controller

{

EmployeeDataAccessLayer objemployee = new EmployeeDataAccessLayer();

[HttpGet]

[Route("api/Employee/Index")]

public IEnumerable Index()

{

return objemployee.GetAllEmployees();

}

[HttpPost]

[Route("api/Employee/Create")]

public int Create([FromBody] TblEmployee employee)

{

return objemployee.AddEmployee(employee);

}

[HttpGet]

[Route("api/Employee/Details/{id}")]

public TblEmployee Details(int id)

{

return objemployee.GetEmployeeData(id);

}

[HttpPut]

[Route("api/Employee/Edit")]

public int Edit([FromBody]TblEmployee employee)

{

return objemployee.UpdateEmployee(employee);

}

[HttpDelete]

[Route("api/Employee/Delete/{id}")]

public int Delete(int id)

{

return objemployee.DeleteEmployee(id);

}

[HttpGet]

[Route("api/Employee/GetCityList")]

public IEnumerable Details()

{

return objemployee.GetCities();

}

Create the Angular Service

We will create an Angular service which will convert the Web API response to JSON and pass it to our component. Right click on ClientApp/app folder and then Add >> New Folder and name the folder as Services.

Now open the command prompt and write the command for the make the new service using the CLI

Ng generate service empservice --spec=false

--spec=false that mean do not create spec.ts file because i don't need to that file.

Open empservice.service.ts file and put the following code into it.

import { Injectable, Inject } from '@angular/core';

import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';

import { Router } from '@angular/router';

import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';

import 'rxjs/add/observable/throw';

@Injectable()

export class EmployeeService {

myAppUrl: string = "";

constructor(private _http: Http, @Inject('BASE_URL') baseUrl: string) {

this.myAppUrl = baseUrl;

}

getCityList() {

return this._http.get(this.myAppUrl + 'api/Employee/GetCityList')

.map(res => res.json())

.catch(this.errorHandler);

}

getEmployees() {

return this._http.get(this.myAppUrl + 'api/Employee/Index')