I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to write an extension helper to the LabelExtensions.LabelFor HtmlHelper in MVC2? This would be useful for me in that my app requires that I always wrap labels in a <td> tag with a class attribute. Rather than have that code repeated in the View I thought I could write a little extension method: publ...
For example, if I wanted to change the UpdateTarget or the InsertionMode in the controller after the form was posted. ...
I'm new to ASP.NET MVC, but I need to perform a search for articles that match a selected category. The results of this query need to be written into a "search results" div overlay with DHTML- jquery, probably. So, I need the results of an Action, but not to render a view. I was thinking I could use Json and then iterate over the res...
I'm trying to create an XML file to conform to Indeed.com's Job Listing XML. It looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <source> <publisher>Super X Job Site</publisher> <publisherurl>http://www.superxjobsite.com</publisherurl> <job> <title><![CDATA[Sales Executive]]></title> <date><...
I have an ASP.NET MVC application where I am editing an existing database to update a paticular field, DateTime. My database has 4 fields, two of which are DateCreated and DateModified. When I try to update the field, I want to keep DateCreated time the same, no reason to update the date it was created, and I change the DateModified time...
I am interested what are possible reasons that ASP.NET MVC 2 will have its own client-side validation instead of merging with xVal validation framework? Has someone from ASP.NET MVC team blogged about it? ...
I want to test the OnException, OnActionExecuted event of an MVC controller. If I use mock like this: var httpContext = MockRepository.GenerateMock<HttpContextBase>(); var request = MockRepository.GenerateMock<HttpRequestBase>(); httpContext.Expect(c => c.Request).Return(request).Repeat.AtLeastOnce(); r...
Hi I have an action in my controller, i am waiting to ModelBinder bind the incoming postdata to my action parameter but it doesnt do this, i dont know. I only manually bind them with TryUpdateModel() but i dont want to use it. Property names and the postdata are the same why it cant bind them ? public class User { public string Fir...
i have an asp.net mvc application, and i use data annotations for data validations something like this: public class Booking { [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter your name")] public string Name { get; set; } ... so this is in my DomainModel and i need to translate the ErrorMessage, and to use the translation in my v...
Hello. I have implemented errors handling in ASP.NET MVC site in a way like suggests this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/619895/how-can-i-properly-handle-404s-in-asp-net-mvc/620559#620559. With 404 errors all works fine. But how correctly show user friendly screen for 401 error? They usually do not throw Exception that can be ...
I want to solve duplicate objects in dynamic loading content. Please look at the following source code for easier understand. Base Page HTML With 1 Dynamic Loading Content <body> <div id="general-div"></div>> <div id="div1"></div> <div id="placeholder1"> Dynamic Content will be placed inside this. <...
Hi, Is it possible to declaratively set clientCaching for an Action using the web.config in IIS7. We need to set an expiry value of 1 day for our Home/Index Action. As of now we are doing this using a filter attribute. Is it possible to accomplish the same declaratively? We are able to do it for static content, but not for Action Method...
Main question: Why use custom localization helpers if there is something built-in doing the same already? Long story Currently I have been reading many options to localize your asp.net mvc website. Most of the posts are old, from oktober 22 2008 for instance. I think one of the most linked option is the following: Matt Hawley on eW...
the basic idea is that you have some class that has a reference type property, something like this public class Person { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Country HomeCountry { get; set; } } public class Country { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } } now if ...
Hi, how can i automatically update my entity objects changed values and save them to db. I hava an Action like that public ActionResult Update() { User userToUpdate = new User(); TryUpdateModel<User>(userToUpdate,ValueProvider); BaseRepository.Context.AttachTo("User",userToUpdate); BaseRepository.Context.Sa...
I have an IActionFilter that does something in OnActionExecuted, however I don't want to perform this action when the controller result performs a redirect. My initial thought was to check the type of the ActionResult as either RedirectResult or RedirectToRouteResult, but this isn't reliable as any type of result can perform a redirect ...
The problem i see with this code, is that it's going to be reused a lot; anything being edited/created by a authenticated user (except for Site administrators) will only have access to a their "studios" objects. My question to you all; how would you re-factor this so the service layer can be abstracted away from the knowledge of the cl...
Situation: In some project management software written in asp.net I have a create project page (working fine). I need to add to this the ability to add tasks from a list of templates to this project pre-creation BUT the list of available tasks is dependent on some values sitting in the create form. My abstract solution is this: I h...
Hello Gurus, I'm working on a asp.net mvc project that will use MS Windows Workflow Foundation to manage client business work flows. These are long running workflows spanning in time over a year or two. So we've decided to use State Machine workflows. A workflow instance will be persisted to a database when not being used (or in idle...
Hey All, I have a partial view that contains an img like so: <img src="" alt="test" id="chartImage" style="display: none;" /> And then in my view that contains it my javascript looks like this: if ($(this).val() != '') { setTimeout(function() { $('#chartImage').attr("style", "") ...