I'm having trouble finding a good tutorial on binding complex lists to an object. Essentially we have currencies that are user defined, we need to generate a form for each currency to allow the user to input exchange rates. I think I'm doing my list properly according to this post, however I'm not getting any data bound. here is my ASPX snippit.
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I'm having trouble finding a good tutorial on binding complex lists to an object. Essentially we have currencies that are user defined, we need to generate a form for each currency to allow the user to input exchange rates. I think I'm doing my list properly according to this post, however I'm not getting any data bound. here is my ASPX snippit.
I am using ASP.Net MVC2 and LINQ to SQL. I am using DataAnnotations and model binding in conjunction with a Form/View and its working beautifully well. Loving that.. My view is an "Add new Employee" form that's adding a new "Employee" complex object. Every Employee also has a child complex object called an "Address". I am using the bound Html helpers in the view, such as Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.NewEmployee.FirstName) for example. Working beautifully well, validating beautifully well both client and server and coming into the controller fully populated and ready to be saved! Exciting.. ModelState.IsValid returns true and I go to save the new Employee.
The Employee is created fine but the system also creates a blank/new Address record in my Addresses table even when the Address fields are blank! How can I prevent any Address from being created, in situations where I ONLY want to create a new Employee with no Address. An example is when the user supplies an existing Address, then I wish to simply set the new Employee's AddressID to that of an existing physical address (I hope that makes sense). But it could apply to any situation where you need to create a new complex object, but you don't wish for LINQ to create any of its child complex objects. I have tried setting NewEmployee.Address = null after it is received in the controller, but even after that, a blank/new Address is still created. Even if I try NewEmployee.Address = SomeExistingAddress, it does correctly link the Employee to the existing Address, but it STILL goes off and creates another redundant new/blank address record! Which is really weird..
I have a "Create New Employee" ASP.Net MVC form. My complex object is an Employee and an Employee has an Address, which is another Complex object. On my View/Form I collect all required values for both the Employee and the Address. I'm using the bound HTML helpers such as: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmployeeAddress.StreetName)
This is all working beautifully well. Model binding is working like a dream, both server side and client side validation using DataAnnotations is working beautifully well and I am nicely receiving my populated complex objects as expected in the Controller.. Now I'm trying to save.. The Employee should always be newly created, because its an "Add New Employee" form. But sometimes the Address is an existing Address and I don't want to insert another one. Rather, I just want to link the Employee to the existing AddressID of the one that already exists in the database.
So I wrote a nifty GetExistingOrCreateNewAddress(Address PostedAddress) method which works great so I end up with the correct Address to use and link to the about to be saved Employee object. This is all happening in the same DataContext, so no problems there..
BUT even when I link the about to be saved Employee object to an existing Address, on save a new/empty Address row is created in my Addresses table. Even though the newly created Employee does link correctly to the existing Address I told it to! Why is it so??? And how can I save the new Employee without LINQ automatically creating a blank Address for me. Because I'm explicitly specifying an existing Address it should be linked to instead!
[HttpPost] public ActionResult CreateEmployee(EmployeeDetailsViewModel NewEmployeeDetails) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { EmployeeRepository ER = new EmployeeeRepository(); // Fetch or Create the appropriate Address object for what has been entered Address ActualAddress = ER.GetExistingOrCreateNewAddress(NewEmployeeDetails.EnteredAddress); // Link this Address to the "about to be saved" Employee NewEmployeeDetails.Employee.Address = ActualAddress; // Lock it in.. ER.SaveNewEmployee(NewEmployeeDetails.Employee);
I'm designing a page which makes an ajax call (via jQuery.ajax) to a page method on the server side.On the server side, I have two classes: Agent and Channel.
In the page method, I'd like to return a List<Agent> and a List<Channel> to the client side. How can I return two lists to client side? should wrap them up in one class like:
In my past I had created the following web page in web forms and I'm learning asp.net mvc right now , I had given it a tought and I run into conclusion I really wont know how to do the same page with asp.net mvc
before explaining you the actuall problem I would explain you the Model The model is a pretty simple , it for few columns which are bool , and a lot of them which are varchar(MAX) The View is built the following way
the bool parts of curse got a check box but the varchar parts are the complicated ones In my web form page i got the following code for each varchar property in my database
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my server script gets the following page apon submit and checks if radio button 1 or 2 is selected if 1. it inserts the link as it is into colmn property while if it is 2. it saves the file on the server and saves the file location into the colmn property.
consider classic example: Product and Category editing Product in dropdown Id of Category is selected - Category mapped as object with all fields empty except Id when submitting Product edit form - validation gives an error: "Category name is required" (I have Required attribute on Category Name property)
How deal with such errors if I want to use built-in validation (
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Writing custom data binder which would fill all such id-only-objects with values from database comes to mind.
upd: I did small research of mvc code and found out that validation happens before binding - so this solution would't work.
What I want to achieve is the ID of the property: item.Item.ID to be bound to the ID from the (route)URL. However I can't get it to work. I tried using [Bind()] attribute.
I fixed it now using a hidden field in the form like so:
<%= Html.HiddenFor(model => model.Item.ID)%>
However this feels a bit icky. I'd like to know if there is a better cleaner way of doing this?
I'm trying to implement a recipe search page that allows users to specify search criteria by selecting checkboxes that match desired recipe attributes. All the data is stored in a database uing tables with 1 - many relationships. Each recipe can have multiple attributes from any of 5 attribute tables. I want to find all the recipes that match the user-selected criteria and display them in a grid. For example, the user may want a breakfast (attribute 1) recipe that is made with fruit and milk (attributes 2 and 3), is low-fat and high fiber (attributes 4 and 5), and takes less than 15 minutes to prepare (attribute 6). The query for this example might look something like:
FROM recipes, recipeMeals, recipeDishes, recipeFoodGrps, recipeNutrients, recipeFixTimes
WHERE recipes.id = recipeMeals.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeDishes.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeFoodGrps.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeNutrients.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeFixTimes.recipeId and recipeMeals.mealId in (1) and recipeDishes.dishId in (5) and recipeFoodGrps.fdGrpId in (1, 6) and recipeNutrients.nutrAttsId in (2, 3) and recipeFixTimes.fixTimeId in (1)
I' can generate the SQL but can't figure out how to bind it to a grid control. No could I see how to get any of the data controls to build the query for me. Is there a way to say "execute this query and display the results in a GridView"?
We know that using something like Bind("CustomerName") can be used in the Text property of a label control inside a gridview, where CustomerName is a property of the object whose collection is bound to the gridview. If that property is of a complex type (object of another class), how do we use a property of that inline object as a binding for the gridview column?
I am looking at ASP.NET MVC2 and trying to post a complex object using the new EditorFor syntax.I have a FraudDto object that has a FraudCategory child object and I want to set this object from the values that are posted from the form.Posting a simple object is not a problem but I am struggling with how to handle complex objects with child objects.I have the following parent FraudDto object whcih I am binding to on the form:
public class FraudDto { public FraudCategoryDto FraudCategory { get; set; }
I am very new to entity, sql, c#, and asp.net so this might be something easily fixed. I am attempting to display all the inactive products stored in my table called products in a datagrid.
var productQuery = from b in solutionContext.Version where b.Product.Name == search && b.Product.ActiveNumber > b.VersionNumber select new Product { Name = b.Product.Name, Description = b.Product.Description, ID = b.ID, LastNumber = b.Product.LastNumber, MiddleNumber = b.Product.MiddleNumber, RSTATE = b.RSTATE, ActiveNumber = b.Product.ActiveNumber, LastModified = b.Product.LastModified, ParentID = b.Product.ParentID, ProductType = b.Product.ProductType }; ProductsGrid.DataSource = productQuery; ProductsGrid.DataBind();
I am getting this error: $exception {"The entity or complex type 'SolutionsModel.Product' cannot be constructed in a LINQ to Entities query."} System.Exception {System.NotSupportedException}
I am trying to call web service from jquery..trying following way but i am not able to pass to complex type parameter to WCF service.My wcf function is as follows
<OperationContract()> <Web.WebGet(UriTemplate:="/GetData?strErrMsg={strErrMsg}&chrErrFlg={chrErrFlg}", ResponseFormat:=WebMessageFormat.Json, BodyStyle:=WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped)> _ Function GetData(ByRef strErrMsg As System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String), ByRef chrErrFlg As String) As String strErrMsg is System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)
I am trying to call as follows
var Type; var Url; var Data; var ContentType; var DataType; var ProcessData; var parameters;
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And I am able to call other methods in same way having string and integer parameter.I have gone through this but didnt get anything. URL...
We have an ASP.NET MVC site that uses Entity Framework abstractions with Repository and UnitOfWork patterns. What I'm wondering is how others have implemented navigation of complex object graphs with these patterns. Let me give an example from one of our controllers:
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It's a registration process and pretty much everything hangs off the POCO class Person. In this case we're caching the person through the registration process. I've now started implementing the latter part of the registration process which requires access to data deeper in the object graph. Specifically DPA data which hangs off Legal inside Country.
The code above is just mapping out the model information into a simpler format for the ViewModel. My question is do you consider this fairly deep navigation of the graph good practice or would you abstract out the retrieval of the objects further down the graph into repositories?
My view is the same as any standard auto-created view, with properties set using the likes of:
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In my edit page, for editing the fields for these classes, everything works fine, the model binder works, and validation works. In my create page, only the Project class properties get set and the ProjectCustomer properties remain null. I've tried everything I can think of from manually instantiating a new ProjectCustomer before calling TryUpdate model, to letting MVC handle the lot by including the class as a paramater for the action. The values are being passed just fine, as I've tried a FormCollection too and in the debugger the FormCollection contains all the correct fields (i.e. Customer.Name etc.) yet no matter what the ModelBinder just wont attach the inputs to the Customer object inside the Project object, but will only not do this on the Create action, and does it fine for the Edit action even though the code is almost entirely identical.
why the ModelBinder is just refusing to bind for the Create action and no other? What steps can I perform to debug the ModelBinder when it's not working properly like this?
I've tried every combination of things I can think of under the sun, and simply can't understand why it works for one action, but not for another, especially when the code I've used is fairly basic. I'll note that these classes were intended as MetaData classes hence their pointless seeming simplicity, but as part of trying to track down the problem I've stripped them to the bare bones setup above, and still no luck.
Under what circumstances does the ModelBinder decide not to fill the properties of a sub-object?
just for an asp:TextBox element. What I want is that on submit to have the new values inside the binded object and I don't want to manually read and set the values.
Is it possible to bind a rdlc report to a business object (.NET 4/VS 2010)In my report I have TextBoxes called Name and Email.Say I have an object Person with properties Name and Email.Can I bind the .rdlc with an object Person at runtime?
I need to show this array in a treeview in this way: When the person has ID finished in 00, it is showed how the father node, and the other persons starting with the same letter are the child nodes.
In this case Andy would be the father indented 0, and john and lina would be his childs indented 1.
I need to show this structure in a checkbox treeview and when I select the father checkbox, the child checkbox must be selected too.
I used bind all GridViews, DetailViews etc. on my page using an ObjectDataSource (unless it wasn't possible to do so). Recently, I've started binding all my contols programatically. I find this a lot cleaner and easier, though some may disagree. Binding with a ObjectDataSource obviously has it advantages and disadvantages, as does doing it programatically.Say I bind a GridView programatically (e.g. GridView1.DataSource = SomeList), when I change page on the GridView, I have to also code this. Each time the page changes I have to call GridView1.DataSource = SomeList again. Obviously with a ObjectDataSource I don't need to do this. I normally stick my SomeList object into the ViewState so when I change page I don't need to hit the database each and every time.
My question is: Is this how the ObjectDataSource works? Does it store it's data in the ViewState and not hit the database again unless you call the .Select method? I like to try and get the best performance out of my applications and hit the database as few times as possible but I don't really like the idea of storing a huge list in the ViewState. Is there a better way of doing this? Is caching per user a good idea (or possible)? Shall I just hit the database everytime instead of storing my huge list in the ViewState? Is it sometimes better to hit the database than to use ViewState?
i have one ajax accordion control and inside that i have a list view inside that control. now listview is bind to objectdatasourcecontrol.
and object data soruce control is bind to a custom class. Now the problem is that i need to naviagate to different pages on the click of the listview items or load user control...Now how to do that?. i am pasting my code here.
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Quick question here. I'm sure it's possilbe, just can't get it to work.
I've got a gridview. In have a gridview. The gridview is bound to a list of my custom class. The class exposes a link to an image as well as the image's height and width. I have a Image Control in the gridview. I've bound the Image Url to the correct property. Now, I'd like to bind the height and width properties as well. But everytime I do that I get the following error:
Cannot create an object of type 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit' from its string representation '"<%#Bind("GetImageHeight()")%' for the 'Height' property.
I have a List of complex objects containing other objects within that I give as the data source to a gridview.(currently I'm using BoundFields for the columns). I need to bind data to the columns from the objects within at run time. How can this be done?
