I want to know if it is possibe to return a view as a JSON object. In my controller I want to do something like the following: [AcceptVerbs("Post")] public JsonResult SomeActionMethod() { return new JsonResult { Data = new { success = true, view = PartialView("MyPartialView") } }; } In html:...
Hi, I have custom class level validation attribute, inheriting from ValidationAttribute, on my model. How come it doesn't register a key in the ModelState when its IsValid is false? I can see the the error message in the ModelState.Values collection, but the ModelState.Keys collection only shows an empty string "". Can I provide a key ...
I recently built a site using Asp.Net. The way I chose to implement user login is through a base 'UserAwareController' class, that all controllers extend. It contained a reference to the UserRepository, and exposed a protected GetCurrentUser() method that concrete controllers could query. The whole process felt a bit wishy-washy to me....
When compiling this code: public class WindsorControllerFactory : IControllerFactory { private readonly WindsorContainer _container; public WindsorControllerFactory(WindsorContainer container) { _container = container; } public IController CreateController(RequestContext requestContext, ...
My God, EF is so frustrating. I can't seem to be able to get my head around what I need to do so I can delete an object. I seem to be able to remove the object but not the related child objects. Can anyone tell me what is the rule of thumb when you want to delete all related child objects of a given object? I've tried loading all relat...
From within my controllers action, do I have access to httpcontextbase? I have a method that takes httpcontextbase as a parameter. ...
I am developing an application using Asp.net mvc and jquery. I'd like to use the same naming convention (classes and ids) for html elements in different views. In case when I want to load a partial view asynchronously, the $(document).ready() piece of code in the main view loses its usefulness because none of the patial view's html tag...
I have one Area and in AreaRegistration I defined namespace all controllers in area belongs to. context.MapRoute( "Admin_default", "Admin/{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller="Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, new[] { "MySite.Admin.Controllers"...
As suggested by (among others) Kazi Manzur Rashid in this blog post, I am using ActionFilterAttributes to transfer model state from one request to another when redirecting. However, I find myself unable to write a unit test that test the behavior of these attributes. As an example, this what I want the test for the ImportModelStateAttri...
Hi people. I'm trying to update an entity and its related entities as well. For instance, I have a class Car with a property Category and I want to change its Category. So, I have the following methods in the Controller: public ActionResult Edit(int id) { var categories = context.Categories.ToList(); ViewData["catego...
How can I create a routing structure for a project management application where there are discrete controllers for all the relevant pieces such as TaskController, DocumentController etc and an Over arching controller. I would essentially like a structure like: http://server/Project/123/Task http://server/Project/123/Document I am using...
I am working on an existing ASP.NET MVC app that started small and has grown with time to require a good re-architecture and refactoring. One thing that I am struggling with is that we've got partial classes of the L2S entities so we could add some extra properties, but these props create a new data context and query the DB for a subset...
I've tried the bare method and the T4MVC method but so far both are routing me to the current URL instead of the default path with no arguments for the following action: public virtual ActionResult Index(byte? location, int? sublocation) { } So when I try Url.Action("Index","Locations", new {location="", system=""}) i...
Hi Experts, With MVC stuff when there is an error on property leve, we can add error to modelstate but the same error is added to the summary also. How can we avoid to display it twice. I want to display only public errors in the message summary and all other at property level. Regards Parminder ...
When I run my asp.net mvc 2 site (shared hosting) I get the following error: Method not found: 'Void System.Web.Mvc.DataAnnotationsModelValidatorProvider.set_AddImplicitRequiredAttributeForValueTypes(Boolean)'. In the bin directory I have System.Web.Mvc.dll version 2.0.50217.0 On my local dev machine it runs fine. Is it possible tha...
Hi There I need to render a partial view to a string within a controller action. I have the following sample code, but the ControllerContext.ParentActionViewContext does not seem to exist in mvc 1.0 // Get the IView of the PartialView object. var view = PartialView("MyPartialView").View; // Initiali...
I'm trying to get a very simple client side validation example to work in ASP.NET MVC 2. I'm using data annotations to set a required property "Surname". When I use the Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.Surname) the correct client side validation script is written to the page. But when I use Html.ValidationMessage("Surname") the client si...
I want to write an HtmlHelper to render an ActionLink with pre-set values, eg. <%=Html.PageLink("Page 1", "page-slug");%> where PageLink is a function that calls ActionLink with a known Action and Controller, eg. "Index" and "Page". Since HtmlHelper and UrlHelper do not exist inside a Controller or class, how do I get the relative UR...
I'm fairly new to ASP MVC so go easy :). I have a form that contains a number of user controls (partial views, as in System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl), each with their own view models, and some of those user controls have nested user controls within them. I intended to reuse these user controls so I built up the form using a hierarchy in ...
Hi, I'm using ASP.NET MVC 1 and I have added a custom Profile class using the WebProfile Builder VS add-in (found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WebProfileBuilder/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=980). On one of my forms I want a drop-down list of all users who share a specific profile value in common. I can see that I can ...