Passing URL Parameters Through A Razor Page While trying to take the URL parameters from a page view and append them to an API call from a Razor web page in an MVC web application I kept on getting the URI encoded version of the ampersand from Context.Request.QueryString rather than Read more…
Bootstrap 4 Contact Form with Google reCaptcha I’ve just started building a site using Bootstrap 4 which is different enough to Bootstrap 3 that I’m having to relearn a few things. One of those is form validation as previously I used bootstrap-validator though this doesn’t yet work with version 4. Read more…
Uploading Files in ASP.NET Core from an MVC View I’ve been working on creating a page for for the uploading of files to either a SQL database or Azure Blob storage which turned out to be much more complicated than initially expected. I managed to eventually piece together how to Read more…
Returning HTTP Status Codes from ASP.NET Core Methods Sometimes in an MVC controller you just want to return a HTTP status code from a method rather than a view or data object. This is pretty simple but is done slightly differently in .NET Core than it was done previously. Some Read more…
Posting data to an MVC controller with jQuery The easiest way to post data from a view to a controller action is by adding a form and submit button and letting most of the hard stuff happen automatically. Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in cases where data needs to be Read more…
Select list enum tag helper. If you want to have a select list in a web page which is based on all the values in an enum then you can use the built in function “Html.GetEnumSelectList” with a tag helper. public enum PushType { Notification, Image, Action } <div class=”row”> Read more…
Storing complex objects in Session and TempData variables. Session and TempData variables can be used in MVC controllers to pass variables between actions or from actions to views, however if you want to pass complex objects through using these variables the base classes need to be extended to serialize/deserialize the Read more…