Usually, when you want to add Javascript to a view in MVC project, you would use It would be put just before the closing body tag (providing you have @RenderSection(“scripts”, required: false) before the closing body tag in the _Layout.cshtml file). However, if you have the need to add Javascript in a partial view, it … [Read more…]
In my last post, I talked about a nuget package called T4MVC. In this post, I’m going to show how to show active menu item in MVC 5 with the help of T4MVC. The problem When starting the default MVC web application from Visual Studio, the main navigation menu does not show the active menu item … [Read more…]
I recently discover a nuget package called T4MVC and it has become a must-have on my tool belt. T4MVC helps eliminating magic strings in MVC and support strongly typed ActionResults. See their project site here. In MVC, you have to use magic strings when specifying an action link. E.g. @Html.ActionLink(“View detail”, “Detail”, “Article”, new { id … [Read more…]
I have a need for creating a child action in a controller in my side project. I’ve been using async everywhere else in the application so it’s obvious that I’m going to make this child action async. My child action is similar to the example below: [ChildActionOnly] public async Task<ActionResult> SampleChildAction() { // Call an asynchronous … [Read more…]
When my team and I upgraded one of the projects from MVC 4 to MVC 5, we encountered an issue where users get redirected to the default log in URL Account/Login which is different to the one specified in the web.config in the authentication section. <authentication mode=”Forms”> <forms loginUrl=”~/Account/Security/Login” timeout=”2880″ /> </authentication> After a bit of research on … [Read more…]
One of the projects I’m working on is in MVC 4. The team decides to upgrade the project to MVC 5. The process is fairly simple. Go to Nuget Package Manager and upgrade MVC to MVC 5. The project then still builds successfully but when navigating to the site, I receive the following error. … [Read more…]
A client wants to implement an image upload for user profiles last week. The file is validated when users upload for the right format and size. In MVC, the uploaded file is of the class HttpPostedFileBase. My solution is create a few extension methods for the class HttpPostedFileBase. These methods validate whether file is of an image format, … [Read more…]