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Category: ASP.NET

  • Entity Framework’s Code-First with an ObjectContext

    If the following blog interests you, it’s probably because you’re using Entity Framework with a Code-First approach and whatever it is you are trying to do *must* use an ObjectContext instead of the standard DbContext. I’m sure, like me, you thought this shouldn’t be too hard. Then you started hitting roadblocks like, Metadata is required in your connection string. What’s metadata? This is only needed in Database-First so you can tell the framework where your edmx and other definition files are, so why do I need this with Code-First, I don’t have these files?

    This was definitely my first reaction as well. So after much trial-and-error and research, I have the solution!

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  • Posting form variables that are not strongly typed with MVC

    In a lot of the MVC 3 examples that are available on the Internet today, they are quite typically strongly typed to a model, e.g. public ActionResult LogOn(LogOnModel model, string returnUrl).

    This is extremely useful for the validation abilities and many other aspects; however, there are times when some or all of the data is not strongly typed; then what do you do? Read on for two different approaches.

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  • Pass Model or Form Data with MVC when redirecting

    Have you ever wanted to pass form data or perhaps even a full model from one action to another through a RedirectToAction? By adding a new library package from NuGet, this can be accomplished with a few small changes to your controllers.

    The first thing that needs to be done is to install the package through the NuGet package manager. Inside of Visual Studio, with the your MVC project selected select Tools -> Library Package Manager -> Add Library Package Reference… On the left hand side, select the Online button. Then, in the search field, type MvcContrib and install the base package and you can explore how to truncate string with C#.

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  • Creating your own UrlHelper Extension with MVC

    When you have a website with a lot of static content: images, Javascript, CSS, etc… you will find yourself constantly typing out the same path information with the exception of the name of the actual file. Creating a class extension to the UrlHelper can help greatly reduce your development efforts with a few simple additions.

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  • Compile Views with your MVC project

    Most ASP.NET developers will use Visual Studio to build their projects. The program has evolved quite a bit over the past few years. Including excellent features like Intellisense inside of ASP.NET MVC view files as well as some error detection in these, by default, not compiled elements. However, when ViewBag variables are used or other run-time specific elements, Visual Studio is unable to determine potential errors in these view files. Have no fear though; there is a nice and simple solution to help solve this problem!

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