asp.net-mvc

ASP.NET MVC Invitation sysyem

I need to support invitation in my ASP.NET MVC based site, so the members can invite friends to join. Does any ready component exist that can do this for me instead of starting from scratch? ...

Strange inline code error from ASP.NET

Hi, This is a really strange one. I am trying to add a cache value to my css stylesheet references in order to invalidate the http header caching I have set. I have the following code: <link href="/css/Continuity2/layout.css?cache=<%=Global.CACHE_KEY %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> The above is rendered as follows and does ...

404 error on image handling asp.net mvc controller action

hello friends, i have pretty annoying error that can;t figure out. i have controller action that generates images. everything works ok on my development laptop win 7 pro iis 7.5. but when i deploy it to win 2008 iis 7 images are not generated and i get 404 error. can't imaging what wrong thanks ...

Storing the data from a parsed CSV file between page requests in ASP .NET MVC

Hello, I'm creating a web based questionnaire in MVC where the questions are generated from a CSV file. The format is one question per page. I don't want to have to parse the CSV file every time the user goes to the next question but parse it once at the beginning of the questionnaire. At the moment the CSV file is parsed in the Controll...

Have anybody compared ASP.NET MVC to CodeIgniter?

Is there a lot of similarities? I can webforms ASP.NET and some CodeIgniter but haven't much grokked with the asp.net mvc. Have they a lot of similarities? ...

Data structure for dynamic dropdowns that cascade

Ok, I'll probably be down-voted on this question but my heads not working and I can't come up with a neat solution. Basically, I need to hold a series of dropdownlists in a database or xml file which will eventually be displayed and used on a page. Problem is I also need them to cascade and hold state after a form submission in MVC. Ha...

Using a DTO as the model for a view

If you see at the top of an ASP.NET MVC view: <% var dto = (MyDto)Model; %> ...is something wrong? It doesn't feel right to me... ...

Problem when running MVC where javascript files are not updating.

Hi, I have VS2008 developing a MVC app 1.0. I have added a .js file to app. But when I make changes and start debugging the app the javascript is using previous version and not my additional changes. In the debugger the js file has the suffix [dynamic] after the name of the file. What is causing this? I have asked similar question ...

ASP.Net MVC Controller Actions that return void

If I have the following controller action... public void DoSomething() { } will the framework actually convert it to this... public EmptyResult DoSomething() { return new EmptyResult(); } ...

ASP.NET MVC ActionLink and post method

Can anyone tell me how can I submit values to Controller using ActionLink and POST method? I don't want to use buttons. I guess it has something with jquery. Thank you! ...

VS2008 + MVC2 RC + L2S or VS10Beta2 + MVC2 Preview 2 + EFv4

I'm starting a new project which must have a working prototype within 10 days. The project should be cutting edge and I'd love to use latest tech, especially EFv4. But, also I like new MVC2 features like ForEdit and easier validation implementation (for Areas I don't care). MVC2 RC is out for VS2008 and works on VS10Beta 2 too, but "too...

How to host ASP.NET MVC site in a subfolder

Hi! I'm trying to run a little ASP.NET project in a subfolder of my hosting. My domain is www.gorangligorin.com, but i want to run my app in www.gorangligorin.com/testmvc. ASP.NET MVC runs with no problems on the top level, but not in subfolders. The server says this (line 58 is colored red): Line 56: ASP.NET to identify a...

Small web-framework like Sinatra, Ramaze etc in .NET

Are there any similar frameworks like Sinatra, Ramaze etc in .NET? I'm in theory after a framework that let's me create an entire webapp with just one classfile (conceptually) like Sinatra. I'm going to use it for something work-internal, where ASP.NET MVC is too "big" (and I get confused by it's usage) and I have WebForms up to my ear...

Windows authentication mode in ASP.NET uses the Active Directory group name (pre-Windows 2000)?

Here is the background. I had an .NET MVC v1.0 project that I was trying to secure it by using Windows authentication mode. So I set the web.config to: <authentication mode="Windows" /> And then went into my controller and did the following: [Authorize(Roles="IT")] public class LicenseController : Controller In AD we have a group c...

Is there a way to access an object defined on a view in a Master Page in ASP.Net MVC

Hi all, So I've got a partial in my MVC project that creates a JSON array. I want to move this chuck of code from the top of the html page body to the bottom with the rest of the JS for speed reasons. That is to say I want to store the JSON created as a string in C# and access it on the Site.Master. What's the best option here? Thank...

nHibernate strategies in a web farm

Our current project at work is a new MVC web site that will use a WCF service primarily to access a 3rd party billing system via a web service as well as a small SQL database for user personalization. The WCF service uses nHibernate for the SQL database. We'd like to implement some sort of web farm for load balancing as well as failove...

Configuring ASP.NET MVC 2 with Spring.NET and FluentNHibernate

Hello, I'm trying to configure ASP.NET MVC 2 RC and Spring .NET 1.3 to use FluentNHibernate. I've managed to get FluentNHibernate running inside console application. At moment ASP.NET MVC 2 RC and Spring .NET are working fine for me, but I'm having trouble configuring FluentHibernate. Before asking this question I have Googled a lot...

jQuery AJAX load not executing on ASP.NET MVC Controller Action

Hey folks, I have a simple thing going here: two divs and two calls to load partials (controller actions with PartialView as results). I am dealing with two controller actions: Index and ItemDetail. The jQuery load works in the view returned by the Index action, but not on ItemDetail. These items are in the same controller and you ca...

How do I handle application security? using ActionFilterAttribute and/or SiteMap authorization..?

Hi, i created the following ActionFilterAttribute to check if a user is granted access to a page. I also created two custom Exceptions to handle different scenarios: NotLoggedInException and InsufficientPrivilegeException. ActionFilterAttribute Public Class ValidateAuthentication : Inherits ActionFilterAttribute Private _page As B...

Binding ViewModels With Other ViewModelBinders

I have a viewmodel (lets call it HouseVM) but it contains another viewmodel inside of it (KitchenVM). I've already created a custom model binder for KitchenVM. Now I'm creating the HouseVM modelbinder. How can I access the model binding I've already done for KitchenVM within the HouseVM model binder? NOTE: I have seen this post ...