asp.net-mvc

Automatically generating better views for ASP.NET MVC

I am currently watching the 80 minute ASP.NET MVC introduction. Automatically generating views from a model is pretty neat, but it seems to me that that the automatically generated views could be much better. For a start, instead of inputing dates with text boxes, there could be a date control. Additionally, number inputs could be verifi...

asp.net mvc making delete usercontrol information passing on and off

i am creating a generalize deleteusercontrol , my aim is that on the listing page where all the records are listed when the delete is pressed i want to display the acknowledgment on the same page up the list. I had little idea to do that q1) first of all where will i place my deleteusercontrol(in the shared folder?). q2) on and off th...

designing an ASP.NET MVC partial view - showing user choices within a large set of choices

Consider a partial view whose job is to render markup for a pizza order. The desire is to reuse this partial view in the Create, Details, and Update views. It will always be passed an IEnumerable<Topping>, and output a multitude of checkboxes. There are lots... maybe 40 in all (yes, that might smell). A-OK so far. Problem The questi...

Weird stack trace in exception "The incoming request does not match any route"

i have published asp.net mvc application on iis 6 on the server(windows server 2003) from local machine. On server i have set the default page to default.aspx. but when i try to browse the site on server, it gives me exception "The incoming request does not match any route" One thing i noticed is that. Stack trace on line 5 is shown belo...

setfocus on the msg display

ok the thing is that when i click delete on the view list page i want to set focus on the acknowledgment displayed there . delete is a ajax link . how would i do that? ...

Keeping asp.net mvc site IIS6 always ready to accept requests

I have asp.net mvc intranet site that is deployed to IIS6. Site is used rarely so app pool tends to shutdown. When user click the page for the very first time 5-10 seconds are passed till page appears (app pool started and site is compiled). Situation repeats for the next page and so on. AFAIK IIS7 has option to disable App pool shutdown...

Asp.net mvc application deployment / security issues

I'll start with appologies; I wasn't sure if this was best posted here of Server Fault so if its in the wrong place then please move :-) Basic information I have written the first module of a new application at work. This is written using Visual Studio 2010, targetting .net 3.5 (at the moment) and asp.net mvc 2. This has been working f...

Advanced Model Binding vs 2010

Can I have an example of advanced model binding using ajaxpost? I have two classes Person and Test as follows: public class person{ public ArrayList Name = new ArrayList(); public Test []test {get;set;} } public class Test { public int ID{get;set;} public int mark{get;set;} } My Controller could be [Htt...

Use ASP.NET MVC for html brochure websites?

I have a project that will basically be a large brochure html website. Although some content could possibly be database driven in the future. I use ASP.NET MVC for any database driven websites usually, but not sure whether to use it for brochure html websites. ...

2 different routes on one page?

Hi I'm pretty new with MVC2 or MVC in general. If it's one thing I get caught up with it's routes. Like now I got this scenario. Im going from the regular site to Admin. My navigation is the same partialview on both I just do a check which data to render something like this. <% if (!Request.RawUrl.Contains("Admin")){%> <% foreach (var ...

Caching asp.net viewdata

Hey guys, I'm currently thinking about caching most of my viewdata excpt user specific data after a user logs on. I thought the simplest way was caching the ViewData object itself and adding the user specific data after it was loaded. Are there any downsides of this approach? Are there better ways? string cacheKey = "Nieuws/show/" + id...

ASP.NET MVC: Redundant (strongly typed) views in CRUD areas.

In the CRUD areas of my MVC app I have lots of seemingly pointless view files, such as: <%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="Some.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<SomeModel>" %> <asp:Content ID="ContentID" ContentPlaceHolderID="SomePlaceHolder" runat="server"> <%= Html.DisplayForModel() %> </asp:Content> This i...

How to read system.web section from web.config

Should be simple, but whatever I try returns null: const string key = "system.web"; var sectionTry1 = WebConfigurationManager.GetSection(key); var sectionTry2 = ConfigurationManager.GetSection(key); I'm sure I have done this before. I am using MVC if this makes a difference. ...

result set using two different views (from an if statement)

Hi All, I have a bit of code that works with a result set called "result" (original I know) but depending on the incoming variable I'd like to fire the specific query depending. I have the below in an if statement but that just makes the "result" recordset gets those nasty red lines and it doesn't work. I'm sure this is easy to work out...

How to post only a specific ASCX partial instead of the whole page

I've got an ASPX page rendering a search ascx page which in turn will fill a grid on the main ASPX page. Aside that, I've also got an ascx page which uploads files, like this: <form method="post" action="<%= Url.Action("UploadFile") %>" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <fieldset> <input type="file" name="file" id="fil...

asp.net mvc calling child record in the view

ok i have the view in which there is a list. every record in the list have some child records . when i click on the details link . i want the records to be displayed in the table below. what mechanism i should follow. i want some way to trigger the table below? ...

Database cache that I'm not aware of?

I'm using asp.net mvc, linq2sql, iis7 and sqlserver express 2008. I get these intermittent server errors, primary key conflicts on insertion. I'm using a different setup on my development computer so I can't debug. After a while they go away. Restarting iis helps. I'm getting the feeling there is cache somewhere that I'm not aware of. C...

Forms Authentication (restrict an area)

Hi all... I'm developing an website using asp.net mvc with MySQL and I need to make a simple restrict area for the user update some informations in website. So, I had created an area in mvc application called "Admin", and I know how to protect it using Forms authentication and Autorize attribute! It works fine, but in each controller of ...

Format boolean column in MVCContrib grid

HI, I am using the MVCContrib grid and I would like to display images depending on the values of a column, e.g.: if the column's value is null display the image "<img src="true.gif">" otherwise display the image "<img src="false.gif"> Furthermore I would also need (this should be the same approeach I think) to display different acti...

Convert numbers to time?

Is there a slick way to convert simple numbers (Army time included) to a time format (am, pm format)? I can do the tedious approach, but I was just wondering if there was another way 0800 => 8:00 am 2317 => 11:17 pm ...