🌿 Plant Store - ASP.NET MVC E-Commerce Web App

A simple and elegant e-commerce web application for selling plants online. Users can browse plants by category, add them to the cart, and place orders. Admins can manage plant listings through full CRUD operations.

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🔧 Tech Stack

• Frontend: ASP.NET MVC (Razor Views, Bootstrap)
• Backend: ASP.NET MVC (Controllers & Services)
• Database: SQL Server
• ORM: Entity Framework Core (Code First)
• Architecture: 3-Tier (Presentation, Business, Data Access Layers using Class Libraries)

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📂 Project Structure

• PlantStore.Models # Entity models (shared across layers)
• PlantStore.DataAccess # EF Core DbContext and Repositories
• PlantStore # ASP.NET MVC Web App (Presentation Layer)

✅ Features

🛒 User Side

• Browse plants by category
• Search and filter plants
• View product details
• Add to cart and checkout

🛠️ Admin Side

• Login to admin dashboard
• Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations on plants
• Manage plant categories

⚙️ How to Run

1. Clone the Repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/plant-store.git
   cd plant-store

2. Set up the Database Update the appsettings.json connection string in PlantStore project. Run migrations from PlantStore.DataAccess project:

   Add-Migration Init -StartupProject PlantStore -Project PlantStore.DataAccess
   Update-Database -StartupProject PlantStore -Project PlantStore.DataAccess

3. Run the Application

• Set PlantStore as the startup project.
• Hit F5 or Ctrl + F5 to run in browser.