I am trying to debug a problem where HtmlHelper is null in extension methods. Oddly the debugger claims it's fully populated, however I consistently get null exceptions. I'm trying to figure out where HtmlHelper should being instantiated in an attempt to see where my problem may be.
Where should HtmlHelper be Instantiated?
Update: In particular I am trying to implement the extension found here, [URL] within a masterpage. The error occurs on the MVC template's HomeController.Index(). There are some 'plugins'/virtualpathing that may be causing the problem (trying to avoid this can of worms), but, code the code is essentially the same as found here: [URL]. However, I don't want to trouble anyone with the details of all of that.
I would like to extend the HtmlHelper by using metadata (similar to DataAnnotaions metadata). Specifically I want to be able to add a 'Title' attribute to html controls that will then appear as a tooltip on the control. I would like to keep the tooltip text with my model, for example by adding 'Tiltle' metadata to the model as follows:
[DisplayName("User Id")] [Title("Enter your 10 digit user id")] property UserId { get; set; }
So the questions are:
1. How do I add metadata (such as 'Title') to my model?
2. How do I access this metadata in my HtmlHelper extension method?
I was having a discussion with a co worker about some controls I implemented. He objected to my use of dynamicly instantiating controls in the code behind, because it will be slower than specifying the control in the markup. I thought he was talking about output cacheing which to my understanding only caches the rendered output of a page not the instantiated Page object. He said no its a different type of caching. Unfortunately he was unable to give me any documentation to backup the claim so I am wondering if anyone here has ever hear of any such type of caching, and if so is there any documentation on it that I can refer to.
URL....This link shows a demo that let user to put origin and destination then get direction. I want to know how to add a option which is let user to use their current location as origin location (Location from).
I have a table in my database, in which a certain field holds the locations of text or doc files (the files are of a transcript for a chat session).
In the Gridview right now i able to show the link locations. But i want to have Hyperlink or Button in the links location in the Transcript Location fields.And on the click of which the txt or doc file opens up in notepad or microsoft word.
Following is my code when user enters hospital name and city, he will be navigated to this page to show location on map. Now I want to get user current location and draw the route between current location and destination. Is there any way to integrate to geocoding and geolocation?
I am new to MVC and I am trying to create my own extension method so that I can add onto the html helpers that are available in my razor views. Html.DropDownListFor() lets you create a drop down list for any propery on your model. I would like to create a helper called Html.StateDropDownListFor() that does the exact same thing, except loads the drop down with all 50 US states. This way I don't have to create a SelectList for every single state drop down that I create. What is the easiest way to do this? Right now I have this:
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Am I even close? I don't want to rebuild a whole text box helper, I just want to create a helper that utilizes the existing text box helper but does the SelectList for me. That way in my views I could just do Html.StateDropDownList(x => x.State)
How can I call HtmlHelper methods outside of a view? I want to call Html.ActionLink from a C# method. Then use Response.Write to write the output from ActionLink to the output stream of a view. Is there a server side equivalent of HtmlHelper.ActionLink?
I am developing a Web app that is based on ASP.NET 3.5, and i added some page from ASP.NET MVC, everything is ok, until i use the "HTML" helper class, then the page is not being able be render, because this is not recognized.
For Example : Html.BeginForm() => this is not recognize as a method
But if i used "System.Web.Mvc.Html.FormExtensions.BeginForm", which is a extension method itself, it work fine.
I am using VS2010 & MVC2 to develop a web app. I noticed that HtmlHelper.LabelFor doesnt contain an override that accepts either a css class or html attributes. I was thinking about writing my own override for this, but am struggling with it.
The current LabelFor method accepts a lambda expression and automatically extrapolates the property name, display name (if specified via [DisplayName] attribute and value and generates the label. How do I write my overridden to do the same, but also insert any htmlAttributes specified such as class, style etc.
I am having some trouble with returning a View in response to an ActionResult method being invoked. In my view I have a ViewData which holds a value which is being read. Current process.. user selects 1 of three radio buttons, and clicks a button to apply the selection, which in turn triggers method which sets the form ..
Now in my controller, I change the value in the ViewData and simply which to return to the View();. Here is we're the fun starts.. I receive the following message, and cannot get around it. The view 'GridEditingMode' or its master was not found. The following locations were searched:
am currently stuck with this problem of displaying an image using HtmlHelper class.Here is what i have. I have a custom HtmlHelper class which supposed to display an image:
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I managed to get to the controller, but image shows as null. Is there a way around it ? or maybe an even better way to do this?
List<Category> Category is my database table having two properties Category_Id and Category_Name
and a strongly typed ProductCategoryViewModel View in which a ListBoxFor HtmlHelper is filled with Category_Name and Category_Id
public ActionResult Index(ProductCategoryViewModel model) { if (ModelState.IsValid)[code]....
In this Article is also my Database table defined in Linq to Sql classes. I want to get selected value and text from HtmlHelper ListBox to insert it to my Article table
I'm trying to override all the Html.TextBoxFor etc. methods. I want to make them non-static methods in a class that extends ViewUserControl. But, according to intellisense, Html does have access to these methods; they simply don't appear. So basically I want to do something like:
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But I'm not getting the syntax right.
Basically just trying to wrap the TextBoxFor call so that my ViewUserControl can drop in a unique id each time.
I saw this implemented somewhere but basically below I'm using the textbox HTMLHelper to draw a textbox with the id myID and default text 'text_goes_here'. I want to also add a class to thiis helper, i saw somewhere it implemented with new {@class =''} as a third parameter creating an object but im not sure exactly how its wrote
I'm trying to create a jquery template using the HtmlHelper.ActionLink. By default it url encodes the parameters, which causes a problem for the syntax needed for the template. Is there a way to override the encoding.
In this example
<script id="itemTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl"> @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id = "${ID}" } ) | ${Last} | ${First} <br /> </script> the generated code for @Html.ActionLink ends up being <a href="/User/Details/%24%7BID%7D">Details</a>
When upgrading to mvc2 i noticed some of my javascript that was keying on "Points[0]_Id" (this is invalid for an html id btw) started to fail. I pulled up the source and noticed that the TagBuilder class now generates valid client id's and replaces all invalid characters with the "IdAttributeDotReplacement" (which is a terrible name now, since it's not just a dot replacement character anymore). I started to look for a way to generate client id's using a helper built into mvc and came across HtmlHelper.GenerateIdFromName, but this still generates ids the invalid way!
IMO: the tagbuilder class or the GenerateFromName code should not be duplicated in two different spots or else you will get errors like this. Also I consider this change made to TagBuilder.GenerateId to be a breaking change and should be included in the breaking changes section of the release notes.
I have an HTML Helper that essentially renders static content read from HTML files (inside of a vdir). There are cases when the HTML file has a title element defined and in such cases, the current page should use the given title. The content inside of the body should be rendered where the Helper class is referenced in the View.
This is how I call the helper.
<%=Html.StaticContent("staticcontent.htm", new List<StaticContentTag>() { new StaticContentTag() {TagKey=ReplaceTags.MarketName, TagValue = "Austin"} }, Model, true) %>
I'm passing in the ViewModel so that I can set the title and the last parameter is a flag that says whether to force the title or not.
The head has the title defined like this.
<title><%=Model.Title%></title>
I know what I'm doing wrong here by referencing the Model.Title element before even calling the helper. Any ideas on how I can work around this?
