DisplayTextFor Helper Handle HttpPost in MVC

Introduction

This article shows you how to use a DisplayTextfor helper to handle HttpPost operations in MVC applications.

Create an ASP.Net Web Application as in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Web Application

Choose MVC template as in Figure 2.

Figure 2: MVC template

Setup Entity Framework as shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5.

Figure 3: Add ADO.NET Entity Framework

Figure 4: Connection setting

Figure 5: Select Tables

Add an Employee Controller as shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8.

Figure 6: Add controller

Figure 7: MVC controller - empty

Figure 8: EmployeeController

EmployeeController.cs

Add a View as Figure 9.

Figure 9: Add Index View

Index.cshtml

The output of the application is as in Figure 10.

Figure 10: Index

Summary

In this article we saw how to use a DisplayTextFor Helper to handle HttpPost operations in MVC application.
Happy coding!