asp.net-mvc

Why does Environment.NewLine not work in my String.Replace() but "\n" does?

I'm working on displaying some text in a textarea that I've submitted via a form in my ASP.NET MVC app. I want the line breaks to show when I'm displaying the text back. Why does Message.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br />") not work, but Message.Replace("\n", "<br />") does? Is the breakline character that the browser submi...

Does the visual studio 2008 Web Server supports multiple projects?

I have an mvc site with two projects. One is the site itself and then a second project contains controls which are content only. The reason for this is that the control project is for elements that live in a cms. When I am running it locally in dev studio, I would like to be able to load these controls without setting up iis. Is ther...

How do I get a MethodInfo from an ActionExecutingContext?

The title says it all. If I have an instance of ActionExecutingContext how might I get the MethodInfo of the action in question? ...

asp.net mvc and grids which allow multiple row selections

Is there JavaScript grid component where in read-only mode I would be able to select somehow several rows ( e.g. shift or ctrl with mouse click ) and track/process selected rows. ...

How to have Global Authorization in asp.net mvc.

I have been looking around but i don't see any spec for this, maybe i search a wrong keyword. But i'm here so i should ask something.. :) I'm familiar with Authorize Attribute, but I think it only apply to Actions. What should i do if i want my whole application to authorize first before getting access to any actions? It will be very p...

Asynchoronous action calls with asp.net mvc

I'm looking into microsoft's version of MVC as a framework for a site redesign that I'm about to begin. I am not totally new to MVC, I worked on a java app using MVC. We used the DOJO javascript library to make asynchronous calls back to the actions to update views. What are some of my choices to do the same in .net MVC? I'd like...

Why does HttpContext not derive from HttpContextBase?

Both have Request and Response properties, but I can't write a method that takes either HttpContext or HttpContextBase. In some places either one or the other is available so I need to handle both. I know HttpContextWrapper can convert in one direction, but still... why is it like this? ...

SQL injection concerns

ok i use this route routes.MapRoute( "Catalog/Data", "Catalog/{*data}", new { controller = "Catalog", action = "Category", data = "" } ); the Url looks something like http://localhost/Catalog/Computer/Harddrives/internal Data beening the Computer/Harddrives/internal part i split it apa...

Help in debugging PL/SQL package?

I have a problem in my asp.net MVC application. I have a wrapper class for PL/SQL package. And I have to save screen changes to database through package call. While the process its not throwing any exception or error. How do I debug the package to find where the problem is? Please help me. ...

asp.net mvc: display a lightbox from a controller's action result

I have an action that returns ViewResult (it's a detail form, public ViewResult AddFoo(long id) and I need to display this result in a lightbox My first idea was to generate a div with an iframe, but than I don't know how am I going to close (hide the div) this lightbox on submit Other thing that I could do is take somehow the generate...

NHibernate.Search with S#arp Architecture

Has anyone managed to get nhibernate.search (Lucene) to work with S#arp Architecture? I think I have it all wired up correctly except Luke shows no records or indexes when I run my indexing method. The index files for the entity are created (segments.gen & segments_1) but both are 1kb in size which explains why Luke shows no data. I e...

ASP.Net MVC - Passing selected data from View to Controller (Help!)

I have a model (entity class) Newsletter. I pass a list of Newsletter to a View and display the list of Newsletter in a table with each Newsletter across a row. Besides each Newsletter row, there is a checkbox. I will select the Newsletters that I want to send by checking the checkbox and clicking on a send button. How can I pass the...

Submit button outside Html.BeginForm

Hello, On my page I have toolbar which comes from Masterpage, and some input fields. All input fields are inside of tag form and toolbar outside tag form. Is it possible submit form after pressing on button outside of form tag? Please suggest, Alexander. ...

ASP.NET MVC: Putting HTML inside Html.ActionLink(), plus No Link Text?

I have two questions: I'm wondering how I can display no link text when using Html.ActionLink() in an MVC view (actually, this is Site.Master). There is not an overloaded version that does not allow link text, and when I try passing in just a blank string, the compiler tells me it needs a non-empty string. How can I fix this? I ...

Using AJAX with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on IIS 6

I am running into a problem trying to use AJAX and jQuery with ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6.0. I receive a 403.1 error when I attempt to invoke an action via jQuery. Is there anything I must add to the web.config in order to support this? Client Code <script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../...

Model Binding With Entity Framework (ASP.NET MVC)

Earlier I created an AddClient page that (when posted) passed a client object and I used db.AddToClient(obj) in my repository to persist it. Easy stuff. Now, I have a details page whose save submits a post to an action "UpdateClient". Before that action is hit, my custom model binder creates my Client object and it's conveniently hand...

Silverlight Isolated Storage and Host Name Redirects

I have a site that serves up a pretty substantial Silverlight RIA and it makes use of IsolatedStorage. The SL app is served up from https://www.site.com/Application (MVC View that hosts the SL object tags, etc). It is also served up from https://site.com/Application. The problem inherent in this is that this will create two separate I...

Problem with ASP.NET MVC viewModel exposing Dictionary<T,K> property

Hi, I'm using ASP.NET MVC and I am trying to use a dictionary as a property in a ViewModel over which i want to iterate in the view and dynamically generate checkboxes for each key-value-pair in the Dictionary. I can successfully get the checkboxes to be generated with the correct values for the "value" attribute but i'm having trouble ...

Debug.Assert() has stopped working in my project

Hi, For some reason, the following line does nothing in my ASP.NET MVC project: System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(false); I have triple-checked that I am using the Debug configuration and "Define Debug constant" is checked in the Debug configuration settings. The same problem also occurs in my unit test project. Implementing my o...

ASP.NET MVC: How to "understand" legacy URLs but not write them?

Please excuse the confusing title ;) We've built an ASP.NET MVC application to replace our "old" ASP.NET webforms monster. We still want to support some of the old URLs used there, because these may still float around in E-Mails etc. somewhere out there. For example: Our old system used the URL ~/Password.aspx, the URL in the new MVC s...