asp.net-mvc

HTTP Status code 500 from trivial $.getJSON call - why?

I have stripped my getJSON call to the simplest example possible trying to figure out why it's not working but I'm out of ideas. I currently have: public JsonResult MyAction() { return Json(new { status = "OK" }); } $.getJSON('MyController/MyAction', function(result) { alert('worked'); }); The action is called, but the alert does...

asp.net mvc: using editor templates to update a list of objects

I am banging my head against this wall for some time, some help will be highly appreciated: Let's say I we have a simple Model: public class Contact { public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } } And a simple editor temple: <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<Rpd...

Asp.Net MVC - Tracking an id in route

Hi, I'd like to track an id in the route if it's possible? This is pretty much what I want: /groups/{id} - Show group /groups/{id}/forum/topic/{id} - Show forum topics for the group /groups/{id]/calendar/ - Show the calendar for the group As you see I want to keep track of what group the user is in by the url, instead of let's say a ...

Data annotations modelbinder in new mvc

Hi we are trying to upgrade our project to work in the latest version of VS 2010 and i have encountered a problem with the old Data Annotations Modelbinder. Dim modelBinder = New DataAnnotationsModelBinder() modelBinder.InvalidValueFormatter = _ Function(propDescriptor As PropertyDescriptor, value As String, displayName As String) _ ...

Asp.Net MVC and Web Services

I have an existing Asp.Net MVC Website and I would also like to provide a Web Service from the same domain. What is the best way to approach creating a web service in this scenerio? Do I add to this project or...? ...

asp.net mvc views with CLR generics syntax in inherits attribute

For reasons I won't go into I need to use CLR generics syntax in an ASP.NET MVC view. I.E. NOT this: System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<someobject> but this: System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl`1[[someobject]] When I run the application I get Parser Error: could not load type `System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl`1[[someobject]]` :( How can ...

Testing ASP.NET MVC2 service using Firefox Poster add-on

Hi all, I'm trying to create a simple service using ASP.NET MVC2. I'm using Poster add-on 1 for Firefox, but when I use POST by filling parameters using Poster, I can't reach them on the controller, here's the line I use: string parameter = Request.Form["an_example_parameter"]; Am I doing something wrong? Any help on this? Thanks! ...

speed up visual studio 2010 build asp.net mvc

Right now our team's ASP.NET MVC 2.0 web project takes about 4 minutes to do build on debug. We have the following things included on our project: t4MVC templates compiling the asp.net mvc's views on all builds My work pc is a Intel core 2 duo T7250 @ 2.00 Mhz. Windows 7 32 bit ultimate 4 gb ram I am also getting the same buil...

AntiXss.HtmlEncode vs AntiXss.GetSafeHtmlFragment

Can anyone please let me know the difference between these two? AntiXss.HtmlEncode() vs AntiXss.GetSafeHtmlFragment() ...

MVC application deployed to IIS5 using Wildcard mapping causes 401 and 404 errors on CSS and JS

I've been developing an MVC 2 application under the built in Web-server in VS2010. On Friday, I moved it to a virtual directory under IIS 5 in my WinXP development machine. I had the usual problems, and added a wildcard mapping to the Virtual Directory configuration in IIS to map .* to aspnet_isapi.dll (Framework 4). Neither the check ...

mvcContib if then conditional in Grid

I would like to use an If Then conditional statement with the MvcContrib Grid for a cell. If the condtion is met then the whole grid line should be crossed with an attribute line-through. I have gone to mvccontib and codeplex and read all, but the only thing I found was either a columncondition or cellcondition, which is good if I wer...

Asp.net MVC and IIS 7 Remove Basic Authentication in web.config

I published a site with a web hosting company and when someone hits the URL for the first time they are being prompted to log in using basic authentication. If you hit Cancel the site loads successfully and the user is not prompted again with the dialog box. I contacted support and they are telling me (in a canned response) that it’s a...

Best practice for profiling web pages

Hello, I am trying to profile pages in my application. I would like to ask for best practices to follow to do this job either at an early stage by the developer using tools as Chrome Developer tool at the staging phase by using third party tools and methods Which are the best way to do this? What are tools available? ...

ASP.NET MVC with YUI

Hi, I am using ASP.NET MVC 2. I have played around you the YUI samples that can be found on http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/. I have been wondering if any one has had the time to use the YUI controls in an MVC app? I want to start using the datatable and display my results from a SQL Server in this datatable. How is this possible? ...

Does latest version of Umbraco CMS use asp.net mvc?

I've heard that new version of Umbraco CMS will be completely rewritten and will be based on asp.net mvc? Current version is 4.5 and as I see it is still based on ASP.NET. ...

ASP.NET State Service Losing Sessions on App Pool Recycle

Hello All, I am in dire need of a better way to handle sessions. We currently use default in-proc (IIS Worker Process) for our ASP.NET MVC web apps. I am now trying to implement ASP.NET State Service locally on the web server. I have installed and enabled the service (also set it up to start automatically). I believe that we're succ...

ASP.NET MVC: Weird characters in error page.

Since I uploaded an updated version of an ASP.NET MVC 1 application to the server, the Yellow Screen of Death has changed to something like this: ��I�%&/m�{J�J��t��$ؐ@�����iG#)�*��eVe]f@�흼��{���{��;�N'���?\fdl��J�ɞ!���?~|?"��Ey�')=��y6����h���ͼhR��L�w�|��2=��Ez<����7�:5�<�+oy��:� �T����W�v�<[��~2�g�2��?�ʋ�y�hYՋ������t� _N���M�l�����{�,�...

Right place to initialize an object in ASP.NET MVC

I am new to the MVC way of programming so please bear with my basic question ! I have a Status class with a default constructor (in an ASP.NET MVC application). public Status() { this.DatePosted = DateTime.Now; } I noticed Fluent NHibernate calls this constructor each time it fetched a list of existing Status objects from the dat...

MVC Domain Model Validation

In my domain Model I have a Person object that has a number of properties which I have decorated with Validation Metadata: [Required(ErrorMessage = "First Name Required")] public string FirstName { get; set; } [Required(ErrorMessage = "Age Required")] public int Age { get; set; } My Controller returns a collection of Persons to the v...

I cann't access a namespaces in referenced assemblies in MVC Views

Some times there are an intellisense problem in the views, the namespaces in the referenced assemblies don't appear in the intellisense only in views but the do appear in .cs code files in the same project.. i've tried these ways: <pages> <namespaces> <add namespace="MyNameSpace" /> </namespaces> </pages> in the web.config fi...