asp.net-mvc

How to RedirectToAction in ASP.NET MVC without losing request data

Using ASP.NET MVC there are situations (such as form submission) that may require a RedirectToAction. One such situation is when you encounter validation errors after a form submission and need to redirect back to the form, but would like the URL to reflect the URL of the form, not the action page it submits to. As I require the form...

ASP.NET MVC "CRUD" Database Sample

I'm trying to get my head around ASP.NET MVC coming from a LAMP development environment. This isn't for anything production or mission-critical, just a guy trying to learn. I've looked at all I can on http://asp.net/mvc but a lot of those videos and tutorials seem to assume you know ASP.NET WebForms (which I don't) although I am quite ha...

ASP.NET MVC Without Visual Studio

Instead of writing my ASP.NET C# applications in Visual Studio, I used my favourite text editor UltraEdit32. Is there anyway I can implement MVC without the use of VS? ...

Is it better to create Model classes, or just stick with generic database utility class?

We have a simple utility class in-house for our database calls (a light wrapper around ADO.Net), but I am thinking of creating classes for each database/object. Would it be smart to do so, or would it only benefit if we were using the full MVC framework for ASP.Net? So we have this: SQLWrapper.GetRecordset(connstr-alias, sql-statement...

Multiple languages in an ASP.NET MVC application?

What is the best way to support multiple languages for the interface in an ASP.NET MVC application. I've seen people use resource files for other applications. Is this still the best way? ...

ASP.NET MVC - Is it worth it yet?

For any of you that have used ASP.NET MVC (especially the Stack Overflow team), do you think it's worth taking the plunge with a technology that's still in "Preview" releases, not even Beta yet? From what I've seen on the MVC site and various blogs, it seems that a lot is still in flux, making it so that upgrading to the latest MVC vers...

In ASP.NET MVC I encounter an incorrect type error when rendering a user control with the correct typed object

I encounter an error of the form: "The model item passed into the dictionary is of type FooViewData but this dictionary requires a model item of type bar" even though I am passing in an object of the correct type (bar) for the typed user control....

Is there a way to include a fragment identifier when using Asp.Net MVC ActionLink, RedirectToAction, etc. ?

I want some links to include a fragment identifier. Like some of the URLs on this site: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5619/ie6-ssl-ajax-post-form-404-error#5626 Is there a way to do this with any of the builtin methods in MVC? Or would I have to roll my own HTML helpers? Thanks ...

MVC Preview 4 - No route in the route table matches the supplied values.

Hi, I have a route that I am calling through a RedirectToRoute like this: return this.RedirectToRoute("Super-SuperRoute", new { year = selectedYear }); I have also tried: return this.RedirectToRoute("Super-SuperRoute", new { controller = "Super", action = "SuperRoute", id = "RouteTopic", year = selectedYear }); The route in the glo...

How do you get a custom id to render using HtmlHelper in MVC

Using preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC Code like: <%= Html.CheckBox( "myCheckBox", "Click Here", "True", false ) %> only outputs: <input type="checkbox" value="True" name="myCheckBox" /> There is a name there for the form post back but no id for javascript or labels :-( I was hoping that changing it to: Html.CheckBox( "myCheckBox", "...

Use the routing engine for form submissions in ASP.NET MVC Preview 4

Hi, I'm using ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 and would like to know how to use the routing engine for form submissions. For example, I have a route like this: routes.MapRoute( "TestController-TestAction", "TestController.mvc/TestAction/{paramName}", new { controller = "TestController", action = "TestAction",...

Best mock framework that can do both WebForms and MVC?

I'm getting into more of a TDD workflow, and have a mix of MVC and asp.net Web Forms apps. MOQ is recommended for MVC. I've used Rhino for Web Forms. Does anyone have a best practice for having 1 framework mock for both? ...

Validating posted form data in the ASP.NET MVC framework

I've been playing around with the ASP.NET MVC Framework and the one thing that's really confusing me is how I'm meant to do server side validation of posted form data. I presume I don't post back to the same URL, but if I don't, how do I redisplay the form with the entered data and error messages? Also, where should the validation logi...

MVC Learning Resources

Can someone recommend some good resources for learning about MVC? I've been doing ASP.Net since it came out, but I've never gotten into MVC at all. I want to understand how it works, why it's better (if it is), when to use it, and so on. It doesn't have to be specific to ASP.Net MVC, though anything about that would be great. I'm open to...

Does the OutputCacheFilter in the Microsoft MVC Preview 4 actually save on action invocations?

We deployed a live, fresh, swanky site using preview 3 including rigorous stress testing. Page Output caching was our saviour and afforded us the ability to meet our performance contractual requirements. My question is, is there a difference between action OutputCacheFilter and page output caching? Is the action output caching faster...

Open Source Licensing Options for ASP.NET MVC Application?

I'm working on a personal project in ASP.NET MVC that I plan on making open source. In the past, I've open-sourced quite a few PHP scripts and UNIX-based stuff. For those, I typically went with a BSD/Apache style license, unless I was including a library that prevented it. On the Linux/PHP side of things, that usually meant something tha...

RSS Feeds in ASP.NET MVC

How would you reccommend handling RSS Feeds in ASP.NET MVC? Using a third party library? Using the RSS stuff in the BCL? Just making an RSS view that renders the XML? Or something completely different? ...

ASP.Net MVC route mapping

I'm new to MVC (and ASP.Net routing). I'm trying to map *.aspx to a controller called "PageController". routes.MapRoute( "Page", "{name}.aspx", new { controller = "Page", action = "Index", id = "" } ); Wouldn't the code above map *.aspx to "PageController"? When I run this and type in any .aspx page I get the following er...

user controls and asp.net mvc

Here is one trivial question, but I am not sure how to handle that. I need to display list of categories on every page, and to be able to choose items from specific category to be displayed. I use asp.net mvc, and chosen to create user control that will display categories. My question is: What is the best approach to pass data to user co...

ASP.NET Model-view-controller (MVC) - where do I start from?

I'd like to understand better the MVC pattern, as I'll be probably using it in the future (my job is mainly focused in developing .Net web apps). Can I ask to this community to help me find a starting direction on this subject? Articles, white papers, code samples, theory... anything you found helpful! Many thanks Andrea ...