wijgrid Step 2 of 4: Creating the Controller

In the previous step, you created a model. In this step, you'll create a controller to return the items in the Products table from the model.

Complete the following steps:

In Solution Explorer, expand the Controllers node and then double-click HomeController.

Add the following import statement to the list of directives (replacing "PROJECTNAME" with the name of your project):

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Imports [PROJECTNAME]

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using [PROJECTNAME].Models;

Replace the existing code in the HomeController class with the following code:

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`Public Class HomeController Inherits System.Web.Mvc.Controller Dim northwind As New NORTHWNDEntities() Function Index() As ActionResult ViewBag.Message = "Products" Dim products = northwind.Products.ToList() Return View(products) End Function Function About() As ActionResult Return View() End Function End Class`

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`public class HomeController : Controller { NORTHWNDEntities northwind = new NORTHWNDEntities(); public ActionResult Index() { ViewBag.Message = "Products"; var products = northwind.Products.ToList(); return View(products); } public ActionResult About() { return View(); } }`

This code specifies the model that is used to populate the grid and the view that will be rendered as a response to the data population.

Now that you've created the model and the controller, you can create the view, which will consist of a table and appear on the homepage of the project, in wijgrid Step 3 of 4: Creating the View.