ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

1. First, let's create the Dto and the ViewModel objects:

public class ProductDto{  public int Id { get; set; }  public string Name { get; set; }  public decimal Price { get; set; }}public class ProductViewModel{  public int Id { get; set; }  [Required]  [MaxLength(50)]  public string Name { get; set; }  [Required]  [Range(0.01, double.MaxValue,  ErrorMessage = "Please enter a positive number")]  public decimal Price { get; set; }  [Required]  public string CategoryName   {    get; set;   }}

2. Next, we create the service layer used by the controller to retrieve the ProductViewModel. The product controller will use this repository. This repository uses a static, hardcoded data store to make the data persistent across HTTP requests:

public class ...