I think I might have stumbled onto a bug in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC. When I setup my MVC2 project in a new MVC3 project, copy paste classes, code, change name spaces, etc, etc, I ran into an issue in the following, simplified for explanation purpose, scenario:
Model:
public class WineDetails { [SkipRequestValidation] [Required(ErrorMessage = "Beschrijving verplicht")] public string Description { get; set; } }
ViewModel:
public class ViewModelCreateWine { public MasterData MasterData { get; set; } public WineDetails WineDetails { get; set; } }
ActionMethod:
[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult CreateWine(ViewModelCreateWine viewModelCreateWine) { GetMasterDataRegions(viewModelCreateWine); if (Request.Params.ToString().IndexOf("Save") > 0) { if (TryValidateModel(viewModelCreateWine.WineDetails)) { m_wineService.CreateWine(viewModelCreateWine.WineDetails); return RedirectToAction("index", "Admin"); } } return View(viewModelCreateWine); }
The ActionMethod "CreateWine" needs to call the "CreateWine" method in the WineService so that in the end a new Wine is added to the Database. So far it looks ok. As shown in the above code the [SkipRequestValidation] is set on the "Description" property of the WineDetails model so that the user can add Rich Text to the description and HTML elements are allowed during the Request validation. This works perfectly fine until the Params collection of the Request is accessed in the code to check if the Save button is clicked. When this line of code is trying to execute the following exception is thrown:
Exception Details: System.Web.HttpRequestValidationException: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (ViewModelCreateWine.WineDetails.Description="<p>HTML Content with...").
The same exception is thrown when I put the [ValidateInput(false)] attribute on the action method. When I comment out the "if" statement and its content there is no issue and the model validation works just fine and skips the Request Validation on the Description property as expected.
In MVC2 the above code worked fine with the [ValidateInput(false)] attribute on the action method.As I said I'm not sure if this is a bug, it very well might be my own stupidity, but I thought it would be worth to mention here. So any feedback is more than welcome.
What is the best way to retrieve the display name attribute for an item in your model? I see a lot of people using the LabelFor helper for everything, but a label isn't appropriate if I just want to list the data out. Is there an easy way just get the Name Attribute if I just want to print it out in, say a paragraph?
i would localize the text of DisplayName attribute: i know that at the moment is not possible (i hope that the next version of mvc will do it automatically) so i tried to search how to do it and i found this link:
LINK TO BLOG'S POST
but i didn't understand how to finish the lookup function.
I'm generating the rdlc at runtime and I'm using LoadReportDefinition(memorystream) to provide the definition to report viewer. It works fine but when I export it to pdf or excel, the file extension comes in as .xls[1] or .pdf[1].
I have tried giving the DisplayName property but it doesn't work.
I am working on an MVC2 application and want to set the maxlength attributes of the text inputs.
I have already defined the stringlength attribute on the Model object using data annotations and it is validating the length of entered strings correctly.
I do not want to repeat the same setting in my views by setting the max length attribute manually when the model already has the information. Is there any way to do this?
Code snippets below:
From the Model:
[Required, StringLength(50)] public string Address1 { get; set; }
I am a newbie in mvc3 and i'm wondering how to use attribute like [Display(Name="")] for model that comes from an entity data model that I provide im my "Model" folder in my mvc3 project.
I didn't provide a .cs class for each of my database tables .
other words, I want the controller class render a edit form for me like :
I have a /Register [GET] Action in the controller that pre-poluates a view-model with a string and an integer and returns: return View(myModel);I can see the string being populated in the textarea and the id being populated in a hidden input. Yet when the form gets POSTed, the string value is null and the int value is 0. I verified that both values are posted to the server but the model received in the POST action is missing those values.
Is it possible to extend the RequiredAttribute class in a way to have it validate a condition against another property in the model? For example, in my hypothetical code.
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The DriversLicenseProperty is to be required in the model if HasLicense is true. Is this possible? Is there an example somewhere?
In the original site, master page has code-behind to check a query string parameter value. Depending on this value, code-behind dynamically modify some CSS property to hide / display master page elements.
As MVC2 has no code-behind because we are supposed to perform everything in the controllers, how should I proceed in this case ?
I see this : [URL]
It partially answers my needs but the query string processing is common to all pages. How can I move this processing in a common code section ?
What is the best way to obtain an attribute such as the DisplayNameAttribute of a model's property using the property's name. I am using the following method currently:
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Looking at this long statement, I cannot help wondering if there is a better way to do it.
I want to disallow entering html tags inside specific textFields using custom attribute HtmlRemove, but I don't know how can I acces property/Field value? Model:
here's my situation - I've created some ActionFilterAttributes that I want to apply to a custom Controller class that my other controllers can inherit from. The problem is, I need to set a property on the attribute from the final inheriting controller. So I have something like this :
I'm building a custom web control with a public property which I only want to be available in design time (i.e. make it unavailable in code behind). The DesignOnly attribute promises to do just that, but when I set [DesignOnly(true)] it has no noticeable effect whatsoever:
[Bindable(true)] [Category("Appearance")] [DefaultValue(null)] [Localizable(false)] [DesignOnly(true)] public string MyProp { get { return ViewState["MyProp"] as string; } set { ViewState["MyProp"] = value; } }
The property still appears in code behind IntelliSense. Setting a value to it in code behind works. In these respects, the behavior is just as if the attribute had never been set. And I've cleaned and rebuilt the complete solution. Twice.
I am using repeater control and in that i am having div in item template. Now I am setting its id using eval. I want to access this div in item databound for that i am making it runat=server. But in doing so I am getting :
"The ID property of a control can only be set using the ID attribute in the tag and a simple value."
getting data from multiple Entities models into an MVC controller. Most of the examples I have seen for using EF in an MVC2 app only use a single entitiy.
I have just started using MVC2 in C# using the Entity Framework models (CIOps.model) created from an SQL database. I can create the controller and views using single tables of the model in MVC2, but I just cannot get my head around how to get data from multiple entity tables into the controller (similar to joins in T-SQL). I have included an example below of the controller code that works with a single entity table, tbl_tours (tbl_tour in DB).
Could someone please illustrate how this code would be changed to include additional columns from FK tables in addition to tbl_tours columns. E.g. the clients name from the tbl_clients, the coordinators name from the tbl_employees, and costs from tbl_costs entities? Is it possible to do this directly using the EF model entities/classes that are already created and not use LINQ, POCO, Repositories, etc.? The FK relationships are already in the EF models. I have included the whole controller code, but I just need a few examples of how to join the multiple entities, not rewrite every CRUD function function in the controller. I think this will get me over the hump in using EF in an MVC2 App. Also ignore the fact I am using the home controller, this will change in the application.
one thing that has been puzzling me since learning MVC2 is the following case scenario: I have a view which contains two latest news lists, a login form and a signup form. Every example I found on Views and View Models so far has a one-to-one example such as a simple login form etc. But how do I create a model that provides the properties and validation for a login and signup form and manages the data for the news lists. can I pass multiple models in the strongly typed view? When I created one model the form validation would fail as it expects all fields - login and signup to be filled. I am missing some advanced examples or information.
Is there a way to retrieve the client side ID for a model property similar to how the helpers like LabelFor etc generate the ID? For example, I have a model with a DateOfBirth property. I want to hook up that field to a jQuery DatePicker. Normally, I would hook up the date picker like this:
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This works fine but hard codes the DateOfBirth property name. Ideally, I would like to use this:
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Is this already available out of the box somewhere? I just created an extension method on the HtmlHelper class that does exactly this, but I wondered if there was already something built-in so I don't have to reinvent and test the wheel.
So, if we have in route defined parameter with same name as property at model and then we call it from strongly typed HTML helper (for example Html.TexBoxFor(x => x.PropertyName)), we get value from route parameter instead of property of model.
For example.
We have defined follow route:
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Very simple model:
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Next action in controller:
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And very simple view:
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Result you can see at follow picture:
I think what this dirty example described the essence of the problem. Let me know if I'm wrong.
as the behaviour of the UpdateModel<T> changed in MVC 2 (RTM)? Since then I have the following problem when UpdateModel is called:UpdateModel<T1>(record, properties);record is typeof(Jumbo.Juist.Models.Bezorging) and properties is a string[] containing "Winkelnummer" and "OudRoutenummer".This now fails, because a get-property is being accessed: BerekendeAankomstTijd. In the past, it didn't fail. IMHO, this validation should be skipped, because it's only a getter (and thus/also not included in the string[] of properties to update)
