I have a List View which has a strongly typed ViewModel which includes the entity list I am working with together with some other session-type stuff I am carrying aruound. On clicking an item in the list (an Html.ActionLink) to go to the Details view I can easily pass the entity id. But I also want to pass the rest of the ViewModel from...
I'm confused on ASP.NET MVC caching and authorization and in dire need of some clarification. My self-made authorization attribute inherits from AuthorizeAttribute. It's overridden AuthorizeCore() method runs every time, even if I set an [OutputCache] directive on a controller action. I got that part. Now the mind bender for me: Author...
What does Html.BeginForm() do and is it necessary? Sometimes I forget to put it on a form that takes user input but things still seem to work. What am I missing out on when I don't have it? ...
I have implemented my mvc base controller called DefaultController using dependency injection pattern in order to be able to construct test cases. Example below: public class DefaultController : Controller { protected readonly ISessionHelper _sessionHelper; string _thisUserOpenID; protected IUsersRepository _UserRepository;...
I have been hearing that the built in query builder for the entity framework is much faster to then Linq to Entities. Is this true? If so, can I use the query builder for any type of query? ...
Hello, I'm using asp.net mvc with linq to sql repositories and the following code is throwing an mvc System.Data.Linq.DuplicateKeyException exception on this._table.Attach(entity) My code is something like that: public ActionResult Edit(int id) { return View(_controllerRepository.GetById(id)); } public Actio...
I have an ASP.Net MVC web app that includes a set of Forums. In order to maintain flexible security, I have chosen an access-control-list style of security. However, this is getting to be a pretty heavy chunk of data to retrieve every time somebody views the forum index. I am using the EnterpriseLibrary.Caching functionality to cache ...
Hi, I'm implementing the repository pattern found here Implementing Repository Pattern With Entity Framework One of the methods he has is SelectByKey. In the comment called Key field impementation by [email protected], there was a suggestion to make it a little more generic of an implementation: I would like to add a simple mechani...
I'm trying find a way to do something with MVC that I was able to do with WebForms. I have a set of steps a user needs to go through to fill in data. In a previous case it was registering animals on an 'classifieds' site that was designed in webforms. For simplicity lets say it has 3 pages. Page 1 asks them what type of animal in a drop...
What would be the most appropriate route for this URL? www.mysite.com/searchkey0 www.mysite.com/searchkey1 Where searchkey is the keyword for a search method? I tried the following route: routes.MapRoute( _ "SearchRoute", _ "search", _ New With {.controller = "Search", .action = "Search", .id = ""} _ ) ...
For clarity when I mention tiers in my question, I am referring to physical tiers (i.e. different servers for presentation, application and database) My company has a public facing website that is currently built as a typical 2 tier system (web server and database server). Soon a project will start in which we will be re-writing the wh...
Hello everyone, How do i do validation in mvc if I'm not using models? I'm directly obtaining data from the controller and displaying it. How do I validate ? Most examples seem to use the model to validate.... Would appreciate any help... Thanks. ...
Normally in an ASP.NET view one could use the following function to obtain a URL (not an <a>): Url.Action("Action", "Controller"); However, I cannot find how to do it from a custom HTML helper. I have public class MyCustomHelper { public static string ExtensionMethod(this HtmlHelper helper) { } } The helper variable has t...
<% Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "form_logon" }); %> or <form id = "form_logon", action="/Home/Index" method="post"> just don't work. Pressing a submit button if ID is present does nothing, while id is required for jQuery validation plugin. ...
I'm building an ASP.NET MVC application, using VB.NET and I'm trying to apply a css class to a Html.ActionLink using the code: <%=Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home", new {@class = "tab" })%> But when I run the code I receive the below error: Compiler Error Message: BC30988: Type or 'With' expected. I'm new to MVC and really hav...
I am building an intranet site that will display different lists based on the computer name because different computers are in different areas, is there a way (within a controller or model) to determine the client's computer name? I have tried system.environment.machinename but that only returns the name of the server, any other ideas? ...
I have a web that I build with WebDeploymentProject. I thought I had build it in release mode, but now an errrormessage displays a linenumber. I have deployed a pdb file to the server. Can an assembly build in release mode display linenumbers if the pdb is present? Is there any way to tell if an assembly is build in debug mode or releas...
Hello SO: I am attempting to upload files to my server using ASP.NET MVC. Here is the code that handles the upload request: foreach (string file in Request.Files) { var hpf = Request.Files[file]; if (hpf.ContentLength == 0) { continue; } var savedFileName = Path.Combine(@"~/uploads", Path.GetFileName(hpf.Fil...
I am using Visual Web Developer 2008.I have debug my javascript at localhost by adding a breakpoint/debugger in js file.It works perfectly in IE8 before. This nice debug function is broken, after I try a developer tools(Press F12 in IE8). ...
My first route: // Should work for /Admin, /Admin/Index, /Admin/listArticles routes.MapRoute( "Admin", // Route name "Admin/{action}", // URL with parameters new { controller = "Admin", action = "Index" } // Parameter defaults ); is not re...