Basically, Should everything be done through the viewmodel or is it Ok to also incorporate viewbag? Everything should be done inside a view model. That’s what a view model is. A class that you specifically define to meet the requirements of your view. Don’t mix ViewBags with ViewModels. It is no longer clear for the … Read more
Visual Studio 2013 will automatically upgrade a project simply by allowing the Nuget Package Manager to run Updates. Steps: In Visual Studio 2013, open the project and right click on the project name to open the Properties window. Change the Target Framework to at least 4.5. Then, on the project right click on the References … Read more
After installing MVC4 beta today, a few of my MVC 3 projects would not compile. (ModelClientValidationRule conflict) The fix was: Edit: ProjectName.csproj Change <Reference Include=”System.Web.WebPages”/> To <Reference Include=”System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL “/>
I don’t recommend it. This should be a rather long answer, because there’s a lot of things involved in the process, request and workflow of a normal MVC GET/POST workflow. I will try to answer your question with the minimum information required and why I do not recommend the use of the same view. First, … Read more
By default complex types are read from body, that’s why you are getting null. Change your action signature to public IEnumerable<Users> Get([FromUri]MyApiParameters parameters) if you want the model binder to pull the model from the querystring. You can read more about how Web API does parameter binding in the excellent article by Mike Stall from … Read more
When using forms authentication and the user is not authenticated or authorized the ASP.NET security pipeline will redirect to the login page and pass as a parameter in the query string the returnUrl equal to the page that redirected to the login page. The login action grabs the value of this parameter and puts it … Read more
update-database -verbose doesn’t work because your model has been changed after your data table already existed. First, make sure there are no changes to the UserProfile class. Then, run: Add-Migration InitialMigrations -IgnoreChanges This should generate a blank “InitialMigration” file. Now, add any desired changes to the UserProfile class. Once changes are added, run the update … Read more
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Editor templates work by convention. The name of the template must match the name of the type. So for example if SomeValue is an int type you could write a custom editor template at ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Int32.cshtml which will be used. In this case all integer types will use this custom template when you write @Html.EditorFor(model => … Read more