The ASP.NET MVC Framework is a Microsoft web application framework that implements the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern.
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Asp.Net MVC: Reusing values for segment variables when generating outbound URLs
When routes are matched to the outbound URLs, the routing system will try to find values for each of the segment variables in route's URL pattern by also looking at the values from the current ...
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Asp MVC section and partial views
I have a question regarding ASP sections and partial views.
What ser the benefit of using one over another?
Because if I have a menu, i guest that it could be both as a section, but also as a ...
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Why is using named routes for generating outbound URLs a violation of Separation of Concerns?
What is separation of concerns?
In computer science, separation of concerns (SoC) is the process of
breaking a computer program into distinct features that overlap in
functionality as little ...
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Streamlining ASP.Net MVC deployment?
I own a VPS with Windows Server 2012 on it. I can install whatever I want on it.
In the past when deploying an ASP.Net MVC project, I would right click the project in the solution and Publish it.
I ...
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Is there any real value in unit testing a controller in ASP.NET MVC?
I hope this question gives some interesting answers because it's one that's bugged me for a while.
Is there any real value in unit testing a controller in ASP.NET MVC?
What I mean by that is, most ...
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Does Glimpse support ajax requests? [closed]
Is it possible to get Glimpse to reveal the execution of AJAX requests out of the box? If so, how? I can only see the execution for the initial web page but none of the subsequent ajax requests that ...
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UTF-16 Pitfalls, Chinese
I'm going to be writing an application that is pure HTML5 and JS and MVC.net back-end.
We have .resx files that are getting compiled to .js files for resources in the html5 application. The ...
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How do I handle having so many SQL queries?
I have an MVC3 project that uses SQL Server.
I use data from the SQL database all the time and I often find that I'm reusing/duplicating some SQL queries. I thought I'd solve this problem by creating ...
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When I submit HTML characters in my form, why does ASP.NET throw an internal server (500) error? [migrated]
When I put in HTML characters in my form, such as <br />, ASP.NET throws an internal 500 exception as described here.
A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client ...
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Re-engineering an ASP.NET AJAX project as ASP MVC
I have been asked to investigate the possibility of re-engineering an existing ASP.NET AJAX Web Application as under MVC.
The project, as it stands ATM, is very heavily relient on Telerik's ASP.NET ...
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Implementing a Service Layer with MVC4 while honoring Single Responsibility
I'm trying to learn some best practices while I ramp up on MVC4. I have a solution with three projects:
Web: MVC stuff
Core: Data Model
Tests: Testing classes
I'm now trying to add:
Services: ...
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Why does the .Net world seem to embrace magic strings instead of staticly typed alternatives?
So, I work in .Net. I make open source projects in .Net. One of my biggest problems with it isn't necessariyl with .Net, but with the community and frameworks around it. It seems everywhere that ...
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Which asp.net technology fits this situation best?
I think I can count WebAPI out, but WebForms, WebPages, and MVC are all possibilities.
I want to create an asp.net web site that is primarily static content and links to other sites. The only ...
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What .NET objects should I use to create a cookie based session in MVC?
I'm writing a custom password reset application that uses a validation technique that doesn't fit cleanly with ASP.NET Membership Provider's challenge questions.
Namely I need to invoke a workflow ...
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MVC exposes database primary keys?
I'm going through a MVC tutorial, and I notice that convention seems to be to expose a tables primary key on detail pages/urls (ie. /Movies/Details/5 as an example from the tutorial).
It's obviously ...
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How to make an ASP.NET MVC site modular
I'm in the planning stage for an employee intranet system to be built with ASP.NET MVC 4. We'd like the site to consist of separate "modules", each of which provides a different feature: messaging, ...
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MVC 3 Page design; split pages into Many partials?
I am currently working on an MVC 3 Web app project where I need to display a lot of information on the front page. I am relatively new at web page layout and design so I have hit a wall in terms of ...
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Newbie ASP.NET developer being forced into MVC4 with WebForms
I recently got hired on as a new ASP.NET developer (C# code behind). When I arrived, I was told that they were moving to MVC 4, and so I bought two books on that. However, the other day I learned ...
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What does this mean: Expression<Func<TModel, TValue>>
In ASP.Net MVC, in the razor view, you can type this kind of code:
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name)
(in this case, it creates a textbox for the field Name of the object which is defined as ...
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Want some architecture input to help with current requirements and future (unknown) requirements :-)
BACKGROUND: I am starting to architect a web project using asp.net mvc.
I'm going to use a very common architecture where I have the following layers:
Service
Biz
Data
Domain
The Service layer ...
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Different Project Type in a Single Website
I have developed a website in asp.net and I have some additional tasks, improvements to develop. In order to get experience in asp.net/mvc, I want to create an admin panel using asp.net mvc.
Is this ...
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How to create view models - Constructor, Factory Method, …?
I'm trying to lead a charge for re factoring our rather bloated controllers.
We currently have a BaseModel from which all our other models inherit. The BaseModel contains things common to all pages, ...
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Different database for Membership and our web data or use just one?
Is better to keep our Membership stuff on the DefaultConnection and create another connection (another database) for our data? Or just one database for all?
If I have a MyAppContext and I want ...
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Why shouldn't I use the repository pattern with Entity Framework?
During a job interview, I was asked to explain why the repository pattern isn't a good pattern to work with ORMs like Entity Framework. Why is this the case?
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Get/Post Controller Logic Best Practice
In an ASP.NET MVC project (Razor), I have a Get request, which loads two properties on a model, dependent on the property passed into the action method. So if the parameter has a value, the Group ...
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Implement service layer in MVC
We have a defined service layer hosted in WCF. We are now building a website that will need to use the services functionality. The website is being written in ASP.NET MVC 4 and I'm trying to decide ...
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Admin Panel like Custom Framework [closed]
I want to Create a Framework , like Admin panel , which can rule almost all the aspects of what is shown on the frontend.
For an (most basic) example: If suppose the links which are to be shown in a ...
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Is passing the Model around in this way considered bad practice?
If I have a view called, for example, ViewDetails that displays user information in labels and has a Model called ViewDetailsModel and if I want to allow the user to click a button to edit some of ...
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Unit test: How best to provide an XML input?
I need to write a unit test which validates the serialization of two attributes of an XML(size ~ 30 KB) file.
What is the best way to provide an input for this test?
Here are the options I have ...
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Project/DLL separation of concerns in ASP.NET MVC
I'm coming from a web forms n-tier background into ASP.NET MVC projects, and I'm wondering what the best practices are for separation of the components of MVC into different libraries (or not to) in ...
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MVC or Extract Service Layer
we have an application that is built with .Net MVC. We are now tasked with exposing API's to third parties. Members on our team want to just continue down our current path and just use more ...
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ASP.NET MVC Controllers & Actions In Regards To URLs And SEO [closed]
The general idea is that if I were to create an MVC site, simple pages such as the contact and about pages will be placed under the Home Controller. So my URL would look like ...
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ASP.NET MVC Portable Areas - Can they communicate and be used as a plugin-like architecture?
I'll get straight to the point:
I was wondering if there is a common pattern to use portable areas as a components of a plugin-like architecture.
Example:
We've got 3 plugins (portable areas) ...
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Modular enterprise architecture using MVC and Orchard CMS
I'm making a large scale MVC application using Orchard. And I'm going to be separating my logic into modules. I'm also trying to heavily decouple the application for maximum extensibility and ...
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How should I implement the repository pattern for complex object models?
Our data model has almost 200 classes that can be separated out into about a dozen functional areas. It would have been nice to use domains, but the separation isn't that clean and we can't change it. ...
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ASP.Net MVC 3: multiple versions of the site without changing of URL, is it possible?
Our website is written in ASP.NET MVC 3 and we want to change a feature in the core functionality of the site.
The problem is not every client can be moved to this new version/format (because of ...
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.Net C# Remote Method Invocation (RMI) (Client/Server communication)
What exactly is C# version of Java RMI?
I want to invoke the methods of client from the server, ping the client from server etc.
How the server and client communication is done with c#?
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Is it better to define all routes in the Global.asax than to define separately in the areas?
I am working on a MVC 4 project that will serve as an API layer of a larger application.
The developers that came before me set up separate Areas to separate different API requests (i.e Search, ...
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Is ASP.NET MVC completely (and exclusively) based on conventions?
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Is there a "Hello World!" ASP.NET MVC tutorial out there that doesn't rely on conventions and "stock" projects?
Is it even possible to take advantage of the technology without reusing the ...
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ASP.NET MVC Controller separation best practices [closed]
I am very new in ASP.NET MVC and Web stuff. I want to know how I should separate my page logic into different controllers. Like for example should I use Home\BuyProduct or Product\Buy. When there is a ...
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Unit testing and Test Driven Development questions
I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC website which performs relatively complex calculations as one of its functions.
This functionality was developed some time ago (before I started working on the ...
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Webservice Return Generic Result Type or Purposed Result Type
I'm building a webservice which returns JSON / XML / SOAP at the moment.. and I'm not entirely sure which approach for returning results is best.
The Client Consuming the Services will generally be ...
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What benefits can I get upgrading my ASP.NET (Webform) + DAL(EF) + Repository + BLL structure to MVC?
I'm in the process of defining an approach that may best fit our needs for a big web application development.
For now, I'm thinking going with an ASP.NET Architecture with a DAL using Entity ...
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How to build MVC Views that work with polymorphic domain model design?
This is more of a "how would you do it" type of question.
The application I'm working on is an ASP.NET MVC4 app using Razor syntax.
I've got a nice domain model which has a few polymorphic classes, ...
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Sending an email with attachment from server side
I have to create a word document in a specific format and send it as attachment to some email addresses.
I have a preview screen for the report which on approval has to be send in email. This is an ...
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Is this the correct way to implement .NET MVC website structure?
I have recently seen a .NET MVC solution in which the markup in the .aspx views which appear to have a Controller as their model i.e the controller seems to be providing the data for the view, and the ...
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MVC, when to separate controllers?
I'm starting with MVC and have a newbie question. What would be the logic criteria to define what a controller should encompass? For example, say a website has a 'help' section. In there, there are ...
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Port numbers in Visual Studio projects and IIS
I have a few questions about localhost and port numbers as this is an area where I do not have a lot of knowledge, and because I recently had to work with setting up Visual Studio projects and IIS and ...
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What exactly do I have to pay attention for when choosing Windows Hosting Provider?
This is my first time choosing a hosting company. It is for a web site made in asp.net mvc3.
So I was thinking choosing a provider would be easy since I found this page
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Wrapping REST based Web Service
I am designing a system that will be running online under Microsoft Windows Azure. One component is a REST based web service which will really be a wrapper (using proxy pattern) which calls the REST ...
