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Building a Task Tracking App with Razor Pages

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 14, 2025
Duration
1h 18m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Creating the Index Page

    Create the application pages, and add links and routes to navigate between them. ### Solution To view the solution, run git diff origin/master..module-02-solution in the Terminal, and press Enter to see the next lines of the difference.

    You may also browse the files of the solution by stashing your changes with git stash and running git checkout module-02-solution to switch branches.

  2. Challenge

    Creating the Task Class

    Build the form and handler method that will allow us to create new Tasks. ### Solution To view the solution, run git diff origin/master..module-03-solution in the Terminal, and press Enter to see the next lines of the difference.

    You may also browse the files of the solution by stashing your changes with git stash and running git checkout module-03-solution to switch branches.

  3. Challenge

    Creating the Database Context Class

    Create and register the data context class, and persist the new tasks to the database. ### Solution To view the solution, run git diff origin/master..module-04-solution in the Terminal, and press Enter to see the next lines of the difference.

    You may also browse the files of the solution by stashing your changes with git stash and running git checkout module-04-solution to switch branches.

  4. Challenge

    Injecting the Database Context

    Retrieve and display the created tasks in a table on the home page. ### Solution To view the solution, run git diff origin/master..module-05-solution in the Terminal, and press Enter to see the next lines of the difference.

    You may also browse the files of the solution by stashing your changes with git stash and running git checkout module-05-solution to switch branches.

  5. Challenge

    Making Task Properties Required

    Add validation to the Task form to improve data integrity. ### Solution To view the solution, run git diff origin/master..module-06-solution in the Terminal, and press Enter to see the next lines of the difference.

    You may also browse the files of the solution by stashing your changes with git stash and running git checkout module-06-solution to switch branches.

About the author

Alex Wolf is passionate about software development and mastering new technologies. He has several years of experience working almost exclusively with the .NET Framework and related platforms. Alex is also a Microsoft Certified Professional in both MVC Application development and HTML 5 technologies. He loves learning new things!

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