As we move into a more and more interactive era of website development, more of the JavaScript array work is being done asynchronously and not “top-down”. This can provide some interesting challenges, for example, executing a specific action after a specific process has been completed – also known as a callback. Thankfully, jQuery provides some useful functions to help with this process. This article will explore using $(window).trigger();.
Category: Development
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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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Displaying a Progress Bar with HTML
HTML5 now contains a markup tag progress. This displays a basic progress bar based on two attributes that you must specify: the current value and the max value. Using some basic Javascript, you can increment the progress bar so the user knows something is happening and will be done soon.
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Using the JsHelper in CakePHP to submit a form with AJAX
The JsHelper in CakePHP 2.x has replaced the AjaxHelper from CakePHP 1.x. I recently tried to implement the JsHelper without very much success; perhaps if I would have read the documentation more closely it would have been quite obvious what my mistake was. So in case you’re like me and often skim over long documentation of a helper when you just need one function, in my case: $this->Js->submit() then you can often miss very important information. This article will hopefully help clarify
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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.