Introduction

In this article, we will learn how to display the data from the database in DataTable plugin with AngularJS.

In this article, we are going to

SQL database part

Here, you can find the scripts to create a database and a table.

Create a database

  1. USE [master]
  2. GO
  4. /****** Object: Database [CustomerDB] Script Date: 29/03/2017 16:15:43 ******/
  5. CREATE DATABASE [CustomerDB] ON PRIMARY
  6. ( NAME = N'CustomerDB', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CustomerDB.mdf' , SIZE = 11264KB , MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH = 1024KB )
  7. LOG ON
  8. ( NAME = N'CustomerDB_log', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\CustomerDB_log.ldf' , SIZE = 26816KB , MAXSIZE = 2048GB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)
  9. GO
  11. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 100
  12. GO
  14. IF (1 = FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled'))
  15. begin
  16. EXEC [CustomerDB].[dbo].[sp_fulltext_database] @action = 'enable'
  17. end
  18. GO
  20. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT OFF
  21. GO
  23. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_NULLS OFF
  24. GO
  26. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
  27. GO
  29. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF
  30. GO
  32. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ARITHABORT OFF
  33. GO
  35. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF
  36. GO
  38. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF
  39. GO
  41. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON
  42. GO
  44. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF
  45. GO
  47. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT GLOBAL
  48. GO
  50. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF
  51. GO
  53. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF
  54. GO
  56. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
  57. GO
  59. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF
  60. GO
  62. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET DISABLE_BROKER
  63. GO
  65. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF
  66. GO
  68. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF
  69. GO
  71. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET TRUSTWORTHY OFF
  72. GO
  74. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF
  75. GO
  77. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE
  78. GO
  80. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT OFF
  81. GO
  83. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET HONOR_BROKER_PRIORITY OFF
  84. GO
  86. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET RECOVERY FULL
  87. GO
  89. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET MULTI_USER
  90. GO
  92. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM
  93. GO
  95. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET DB_CHAINING OFF
  96. GO
  98. ALTER DATABASE [CustomerDB] SET READ_WRITE
  99. GO

Create a table

  1. USE [CustomerDB]
  2. GO
  4. /****** Object: Table [dbo].[Customers] Script Date: 29/03/2017 16:16:32 ******/
  5. SET ANSI_NULLS ON
  6. GO
  8. SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
  9. GO
  11. SET ANSI_PADDING ON
  12. GO
  14. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Customers](
  15. [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
  16. [FirstName] [varchar](50) NULL,
  17. [LastName] [varchar](50) NULL,
  18. [City] [varchar](50) NULL,
  19. [Country] [varchar](50) NULL,
  20. CONSTRAINT [PK_Customers] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
  21. (
  22. [Id] ASC
  23. )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
  24. ) ON [PRIMARY]
  26. GO
  28. SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
  29. GO

After creating the table, you can add some records, as shown below.

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Create your Web API Application

Open Visual Studio and select File >> New Project.

The New Project Window will pop up. Select ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework), name your project and click OK.

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Now, anew dialog will pop up for selecting the template. We are going to choose Web API template and click OK button.

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After creating our project, we are going to add ADO.NET Entity Data Model.

Adding ADO.NET Entity Data Model

To add ADO.NET Entity Framework, right click on Mapping EDMX file >> Add >> Add New Item. Dialog box will pop up. Inside Visual C#, select Data >> ADO.NET Entity Data Model and enter a name for your Dbcontext model as CustomerModel.

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Next, we need to choose EF Designer from the database, which model contains.

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As you can see below, we need to select Server name, then via dropdown list, connect to a database panel. You should choose your database name. Finally, click OK.

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Now, the dialog Entity Data Model Wizard will pop up for choosing the object, which we need to use. In our case, we are going to choose Customers table and click Finish button.

Finally, we will see that EDMX model generates a Customers class.

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Create a controller

Now, we are going to create a controller. Right click on Controllers folder >> Add >> Controller>> select Web API 2 Controller – Empty >> click Add.

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Enter Controller name (‘CustomerController’).

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CustomerController.cs

  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.Linq;
  4. using System.Net;
  5. using System.Net.Http;
  6. using System.Web.Http;
  7. using System.Web.Http.Description;
  9. namespace AngularDataTable.Controllers
  10. {
  11. [RoutePrefix("api/Customer")]
  12. public class CustomerController : ApiController
  13. {
  15. [Route("Display")]
  16. [HttpGet]
  17. public IHttpActionResult Display()
  18. {
  19. if (!ModelState.IsValid)
  20. {
  21. return BadRequest(ModelState);
  22. }
  24. using (CustomerDBEntities dc = new CustomerDBEntities())
  25. {
  26. var data = dc.Customers.ToList();
  27. return Ok(data);
  28. }
  30. }
  31. }
  32. }

Here, I am creating Display() action to retrieve all the data from Customer table in JSON format.

AngularJS part

To create new JS file, right click on Scripts folder > Add > JavaScript file.

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AppDataTable.js

  1. angular.module('showcase.withPromise', ['datatables']).controller('WithPromiseCtrl', WithPromiseCtrl);
  3. function WithPromiseCtrl(DTOptionsBuilder, DTColumnBuilder, $http, $q) {
  4. var vm = this;
  5. vm.dtOptions = DTOptionsBuilder.fromFnPromise(function () {
  6. var defer = $q.defer();
  7. $http.get('api/Customer/Display').then(function (result) {
  8. defer.resolve(result.data);
  9. });
  10. return defer.promise;
  11. }).withPaginationType('full_numbers');
  13. vm.dtColumns = [
  14. DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('Id').withTitle('ID'),
  15. DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('FirstName').withTitle('First Name'),
  16. DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('LastName').withTitle('Last Name'),
  17. DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('City').withTitle('City'),
  18. DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('Country').withTitle('Country')
  19. ];
  20. }

Create HTML Page

To add HTML page, right click on the project name > Add > HTML page.

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Index.html

  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <html>
  3. <head>
  4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  5. <title>.: Display Data - Angular DataTable :.</title>
  6. <meta charset="utf-8" />
  8. <!-- CSS -->
  10. <link href="Content/angular-datatables.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  11. <link href="Content/DataTables/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  12. <link href="Content/DataTables/css/dataTables.jqueryui.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  14. </head>
  15. <body ng-app="showcase.withPromise">
  17. <h2>Customer Table</h2>
  18. <div ng-controller="WithPromiseCtrl as showCase">
  19. <table datatable="" dt-options="showCase.dtOptions" dt-columns="showCase.dtColumns" class="row-border hover"></table>
  20. </div>
  22. <!-- JS -->
  23. <script src="Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
  24. <script src="Scripts/DataTables/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
  25. <script src="Scripts/angular.min.js"></script>
  26. <script src="Scripts/angular-datatables.min.js"></script>
  28. <script src="Scripts/AppDataTable.js"></script>
  29. </body>
  30. </html>

Note

You can download all the required libraries from AngularJS DataTable.

Don’t forget to add the libraries given below in index.html.

  1. <!-- CSS -->
  2. <link href="Content/angular-datatables.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  3. <link href="Content/DataTables/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  4. <link href="Content/DataTables/css/dataTables.jqueryui.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  6. <!-- JS -->
  7. <script src="Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
  8. <script src="Scripts/DataTables/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
  9. <script src="Scripts/angular.min.js"></script>
  10. <script src="Scripts/angular-datatables.min.js"></script>
  12. <script src="Scripts/AppDataTable.js"></script>

Output

Now, you can run your Application. Let’s see the output.

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