I’ve been working with OData recently and one thing that briefly stumped me was that the property names begin with @ and in an MVC view the @ symbol is used to indicate C# code so when I tried to reference a property in JavaScript the page then thought I Read more…
If you want to generate URLs for use in an MVC webpage for actions in your controller then the UrlHelper Action method is pretty handy. This can be embedded into your cshtml page and will generate a URL at runtime for the specified action which will be relative to where Read more…
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 the raw one that’s needed to separate Read more…
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 provided objects to/from JSON. Once the above classes Read more…
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. Version 4 does have it’s own inbuilt Read more…
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 do this and the resulting demo project can be Read more…
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 of the more common status codes such as Read more…
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 submitted by a javascript function, in these situations Read more…
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.