asp.net-mvc

How to set drop down list selected item in editor template?

Hi, I have a view in MVC bound with model. Model is about person information. Itcontains a member for storing country. I have displayed the model information in a grid on view using an extension. I have created dropdown editor template for country for editing the person's country. But the problem is this drop down always shows the first...

Overloading Controller Actions

Hi Guys I was a bit surprised a few minutes ago when I tried to overload an Action in one of my Controllers I had public ActionResult Get() { return PartialView(/*return all things*/); } I added public ActionResult Get(int id) { return PartialView(/*return 1 thing*/); } .... and all of a sudden neither were working I f...

Downloading files from the database in Asp.Net Mvc

I'm storing my files in the database and need to download a file when button clicked. i can get the File content (Binary) in the action method. But how to return it as a file to the user? ...

Passing Data by Route Constraint

Hy, in my Global.asax I've this rule: // Home routes.MapRoute("Home", "{lang}/", new { lang = "ita", controller = "Home", action = "Index" }, new { lang = new LanguageRouteConstraint() } ); And my LanguageRouteConstraint class: public class LanguageRouteCo...

Post calls RedirectToAction but view specified in RedirectToAction is not rendered

Here's some of the html <form id="frmSubmit" action="/Viewer" style="display:none;"> <div id="renderSubmit" class="renderReport"> <input type="hidden" name="reportYear" id="reportYear" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="reportMonth" id="reportMonth" value="" /> ...

ASP .net MVC Jqgrid data binding

Hi, I am using a jqgrid with a column named 'Comments'. My controller code returns data as follows: var jsonData = new { rows= .... .... select new { col1.... col2.... Comments = _Model.GetComments(id), }) ....... ..... return Json(jsonData, JsonRequestBehavior.Al...

Radio Button with html.radiobutton ASP.NET MVC

Hello, I'm a newbie to all this ASP.NET MVC stuff, and I was making some tests for my project. I wanted to ask how is it possible to introduce a javascript function call from the html.radiobutton function. For example, how would you declare this: <input type="radio" name = "Kingdom" value = "All" onclick="GetSelectedItem(this);" checked...

ASP.NET MVC based CMS - dynamic generation of form helpers

I am working on an ASP.NET MVC based CMS that presents a rather extreme case. The system must allow the user to add custom content types based on different fields, and for every field, one can add options and validations. The thing is that everything is stored in a complex DB and extracted at runtime using LINQ. I am pretty fresh with A...

Cannot see index view of my controller - routing related

Hi. I have a controller named Content, which has an Index action, which is associated with a view. I would like the simple route "content" to show me the index view of the content controller, so I use the following code (with the addition of the default site home route): routes.MapRoute( "ContentIndex", ...

How to configure a URL with 3 levels in ASP.NET MVC?

Using ASP.NET MVC, I need to configure my URLs like this: www.foo.com/company : render View Company www.foo.com/company/about : render View Company www.foo.com/company/about/mission : render View Mission If "company" is my controller and "about" is my action, what should be "mission"? For every "folder" (company, about and mission) ...

Code reviews for larger ASP.NET MVC team using TFS

I'm trying to find a good code review workflow for my team. Most questions similar to this on SO revolve around using shelved changes for the review, however I'm curious about how this works for people with larger teams. We usually have 2-3 people working a story (UI person, Domain/Repository person, sometimes DB person). I've recommen...

Error while updating Database record with Entity Framework on ASP.NET MVC Page

Hi I have an ASP.NET Page that updates registered User Address Details for a selected record. Below is the Update method that i am calling from Controller. When i am calling ApplyPropertyChanges method, I am getting the below error. Did anyone run into the same error while updating the record with Entity Framework. Appreciate your re...

ASP.NET MVC Actions that return different views, or just make a ton of Actions?

So, I am in a situation, where I need to display a different view based on the "Role" that the authenticated user has. I'm wondering which approach is best here: [Authorize(Roles="Admin")] public ActionResult AdminList(int? divID, int? subDivID) { var data = GetListItems(divID.Value, subDivID.Value); return View(data); } [Aut...

Create Extension Method to Produce Open & Closing Tags like Html.BeginForm()

Hi Guys I wonder if it's possible to create an extension method which has functionality & behaviour similar to Html.BeginForm(), in that it would generate a complete Html tag, and I could specificy its contents inside <% { & } %> tags. For example, I could have a view like: <% using(Html.BeginDiv("divId")) %> <% { %> <!-- Form con...

How does ASP.Net MVC differ from Classic ASP (not ASP.Net--the original ASP)

I'm trying to get a high-level understanding of ASP.Net MVC, and it has started to occur to me that it looks a lot like the original ASP script. Back in the day, we were organizing our "model"/business logic code into VBScript classes, or into VB COM components. Of course, now we have the additional power of c# and the .net framewor...

What is the equivalent of ASP:Timer control in ASP.NET MVC?

Hi Recently i am working on migrating the ASP.NET Web application to MVC. I am wondering if there is any equivalent of ASP:Timer control in ASP.NET MVC Framework. So that this Timer control can automatically check for a particular value from the Database once in every couple of Seconds(that we specify). If there is no equivalent of Ti...

asp.net MVC: binary deployment of mvc views

Hi, how can I deploy an mvc application, without publishing the aspx view files. Is there a way to publish the generated dll assemblies? In the project file is an option "MvcBuildViews", which builds these dll files. But they are build in a temp directory and not used in the publishment process. Is there a way to include these files? ...

creating new usercontrols at runtime in ASP.NET MVC

Hi everyone, My situation is that the user is creating an entity on my site which contains the particlars of the driectors of that company, name address etc.. The Director form is a separate user control with the appropriate textboxes etc. At run time we don't know how many of these directors there will be so I need one to be able to ...

Problem in loading chart on the view in asp.net mvc?

hello, I am working on the chart project in asp.net mvc. i used followinf code to genrate the chart on the controller. Chart chart1 = new Chart(); chart1.Height = 296; chart1.Width = 412; chart1.ImageType = ChartImageType.Png; Title title = chart1.Titles.Add("Main"); Series se...

Approaches to wrapping access to functionality in .NET MVC?

What are some different solutions to wrapping access to functionality within a .NET MVC application? For example, I have six tabs that represent different areas of the application and within area 1, there is the ability to add, edit, upload, whatever. I need a central way to say: Build some dictionary of what the user can do Wrap tab...