mvc

What is Model View Presenter ?

Can someone please explain in a way as simple as possible what the Model View Presenter pattern is? What is the difference with Model View Controller ? Which is best or for which purpose ? ...

Best Architecture for Reporting Application in ASP.net ( with dynamic Sources)

Hi the Requirement in simple words goes like this. Its a charting Application ( kinda Dashboard) with multiple views (Charts , PDF and Excel) DataSources could be primarily from Oracle but there are other data sources like Excel,flat Files....etc. Charting library would be Component art (I would like to try the new asp.net charting bu...

Pass data to the view. Always through WiewData ?

I’m building an application that monitors other systems. Now I want to implement partial view, a User Control called “status”. This control shall display status information about the application.Like: user logged in, How many systems online, Latest activity. This partial view shall be rendered in nearly all other views. How shall I p...

MVC Specification

Of all MVC-capable GUI toolkits, which one do you think has the best spefication and which one the most drawbacks ? In which one do you find your code easy to maintain and extend? Which is one do you find crippled (if any) and for what reasons ? I' m mainly interested in Qt and Cocoa but i would like to hear about others too. Thank you...

POCO format in asp.net MVC app.

I am creating a simple aspnetmvc cart application and have defined classes similar to the following: public class Cart { public Guid Id { get; set; } public string Comment { get; set; } public DateTime CreatedOn { get; set; } public DateTime UpdatedOn { get; set; } public DateTime? DeletedOn { get; set; } public ...

Windows Authentication in ASP.NET

Hi, is there any way to use windows authentication in ASP.NET without needing a windows account? I need a virtual directory to be passworded using the browser authentication prompt. ...

Which pattern would you choose for web application and why?

When you start a new web application, which pattern are you choosing between MVC and MVP and why? ...

What would you suggest for a Javascript MVC framework?

What would you suggest for a Javascript MVC framework? SproutCore JavascriptMVC Junction Something I haven't heard of... ...

MVC pattern line confusion

Hi, What the following line is saying about model component in MVC pattern: If the model adheres to a strict contract (interface). then these components can be reused in other application areas such as GUIs or J2ME. Does the above line mean, if the model components implement any interface based on any GUI and J2ME applicat...

MVC and Model collection

Hi all, I am a patterns newbie so please excuse this question if it sounds too silly. I am modelling an application which requires a list of identical structures, named CityData, and only one of these structures should be displayed at a time. The view will allow the user to scroll among the various CityData. Now my problem is: should I ...

How to load large amounts of data in a ListBox? ASP.NET MVC application

I am working with an ASP.NET MVC application. There is a requirement that a user be able to select an item from a ListBox that could contain over 30,000 entries. Is there a dynamic way to populate the contents of this ListBox using an Ajax call - that would perform well? Would I be better off just populating the ListBox control on th...

Determine Current Controller in Use for Kohana

What is the best way to determine which Controller class a Kohana application is presently using? Examples: http://sitesite.com/ - _defaultControllerName_ http://somesite.com/frontpage/articles - "frontpage" http://somesite.com/contact/ - "contact" ...

Return Partial View As JsonResult

I have a partial view that returns an HTML chunk of list items that gets appended onto an unordered list via an AJAX call. This all works fine. However, once I receive the HTML back from the AJAX call, I would like to be able to set some properties on each of the list items via JQuery. In order to do that, I'm assuming that I need to ...

ASP.NET MVC - For loop inside RenderPartial or Outside RenderPartial

Which one has the best performance. I have a list array that contains a list of articles. When I list the articles I have a RenderPartial that displays just one article and the parent page goes through a loop of all the articles. The Renderpatial is inside the parentpage loop. What is the best way to go about this? ...

What is the best way to handle returning multiple formats in ASP.NET MVC

Rails has a nice idiom that makes it easy for you to have a single action method return properly formated data (json, xml, just the data) based on the format specified by the client (or else deduced from the request. It looks something like this ... respond_to do |format| format.html #edit.html.erb format.json {render :text=> <your...

Trying to Understand MVC Application Archietecture

I'm new to MVC and I'm trying to understand how MVC fits in to what I'm used to. Let's say I have a simple static website with the pages: Home, About, Contact. And let's say that I have one xhtml/css "template" which will be the view for the whole site. To keep it simple, in that tag I'll have a variable for the page contents. So ...

Recaptcha image not showing on IIS

Hello Guys, I deployed my MVC application in our IIS server. When I go to registration page the recaptcha image is not showing. However, When I run it on Visual Studio its working properly. I'm using IIS 6. Do you guys have any idea regarding this issue? Best regards, ...

asp.NET: Unknown length MVC paths

Hi all, I am building a MVC application in asp.NET for a web portal. I have prepared a series of controllers, and mapped all the paths that don't macth to this to a Page controller, which will render the appropriate page. My default route works like this: routes.MapRoute( "Default", "{level1}/{level2}/{level3}", new { controller ...

ASP.NET MVC (Form login): Validation of viewstate MAC failed

Hey Im trying to use ASP.NET login controls, in a ASP.NET MVC project and i get this error, when i click the submit button: Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cl...

any better timer in asp.net ?

I used System.Timers.timer in global.as in asp.net to set a timer for scheduling execute a function let' say transferMoney(). But it seems that this timer might stop after several hours unexpected. And this cause that all the actions are pending. I want to know whether there are any better methods to set up a timer in asp.net, MVC 1....