In this post, I will show you simple tutorial about how to create a simple contact form using Angular 2 and ASP.NET MVC 6. Ok, let’s get started.

The Component

Contact.cshtml

We’ll start off with a simple contact form. I’m asking the user for his name, e-mail address, a subject and of course the message itself. 
You’ll notice that I’m also using a bit of Bootstrap css classes. You however can of course use anything you want to style the contact form.

<div>
    <form #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(contact)">
        <div>
            <div class="form-group required">
                <label for="name">Name</label>
                <input type="text" [(ngModel)]="contact.Name" name="contact.Name" required="Please enter your name" class="form-control text-input" id="name" placeholder="Name"/>
            </div>
            <div class="form-group required">
                <label for="email">E-mail</label>
                <input type="email" [(ngModel)]="contact.Email" name="contact.Email" required="Please enter your e-mail address" class="form-control text-input" id="email" placeholder="E-mail"/>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="form-group required">
                <label for="subject">Subject</label>
                <input type="text" [(ngModel)]="contact.Subject" name="contact.Subject" required="A subject is needed" class="form-control text-input" id="subject" placeholder="Subject"/>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="form-group required">
                <label for="message">Message</label>
                <textarea type="text" [(ngModel)]="contact.Message" name="contact.Message" required="A message is needed" class="form-control" id="message" placeholder="Message..."></textarea>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div>
                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Send</button>
            </div>
        </div>
    </form>
</div>

Contact.ts

This the most important part of this post. I’ve written the code in Typescript. 
Due to an issue I couldn’t seem to resolve between MVC6 and Angular 2 I was forced to the URLSearchParams from Angular to send my data to the server. I hope to update this one day so I only have to send the complete object to the server.

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {Http, Headers, URLSearchParams} from '@angular/http';

@Component({
    selector: 'contact',
    templateUrl: '/angular/contact'
})

export class ContactFormComponent {
    http = undefined;
    contact = { Name: undefined, Subject: undefined, Email: undefined, Message: undefined };
    loading = true;

    constructor(http: Http) {
        this.http = http;
        this.loading = false;
    }

    onSubmit() {
        this.loading = true;
        let headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' });
        var params = new URLSearchParams();
        params.set('Name', this.contact.Name);
        params.set('Subject', this.contact.Subject);
        params.set('Message', this.contact.Message);
        params.set('Email', this.contact.Email);
        this.http.post('/contact/send', params.toString(), { headers: headers }).subscribe(this.messageSend());
    }

    messageSend() {
        this.contact = { Name: undefined, Subject: undefined, Email: undefined, Message: undefined };
        this.loading = false;
    }
}

This was the biggest part, now what’s left is the connection on the server itself.

Start.cs

First we’ll setup the routes. This is very easy. I’ve set up a rout to go to the contact form itself and one for sending the information to the server.

public class Startup
{
                public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
                {
                                //I'm using MVC... So I'm adding MVC.
                                services.AddMvc();
                }

                public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
                {
                                //I have some static files, like images and css in my wwwroot folder. So I need to add these.
                                app.UseStaticFiles();
                                app.UseMvc(m =>
                                {
                                                //Route to open the page with the form.
                                                m.MapRoute("contact", "contact", new { controller = "Contact", action = "Contact" });
                                                //Route to post the data
                                                m.MapRoute("contact-send", "contact/send", new { controller = "Contact", action = "SendContact" });
                                });
                }

                // Entry point for the application.
                public static void Main(string[] args) => WebApplication.Run<Startup>(args);
}

ContactVm.cs

This is going to be the ViewModel. I use this to map the JSON request to a nice and easy model we can use on our controller.

public class ContactVm
{
                [Required]
                [DataType(DataType.Text)]
                public string Name { get; set; }
                [Required]
                [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)]
                public string Email { get; set; }
                [Required]
                [DataType(DataType.Text)]
                public string Subject { get; set; }
                [Required]
                [DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
                public string Message { get; set; }
}

ContactController.cs

The last part is our controller itself where the data is being received on the server. Nothing special here, I’m just using the above viewmodel as a parameter.

public class ContactController : Controller
{
                public ContactController() { }

                public IActionResult Contact()
                {
                                return View();
                }             

                [HttpPost]
                public void SendContact(ContactVm contact)
                {
                                //Do something with the contact form...
                }
}

By using the above code you’ll be able create a contact form in Angular 2 and make it interact with and MVC 6 server-side.
Keep in mind the both frameworks are still in development and can contain errors.