I had the OwinStartup configuration code working perfectly and then it stopped working. Unfortunately I’m not sure exactly what I did to get it to stop working and am having a really hard time figuring it out. To make sure I have the basics covered, I doubled checked to make sure the I have the … Read more
I am using RC2 Using URL Routing: routes.MapRoute( “Error”, “{*url}”, new { controller = “Errors”, action = “NotFound” } // 404s ); The above seems to take care of requests like this (assuming default route tables setup by initial MVC project): “/blah/blah/blah/blah” Overriding HandleUnknownAction() in the controller itself: // 404s – handle here (bad action … Read more
I’ve got safe/sanitized HTML saved in a DB table. How can I have this HTML content written out in a Razor view? It always escapes characters like < and ampersands to &. 7 Answers 7
I am new to ASP.NET MVC. I have a problem with understanding the purpose of a ViewModel. What is a ViewModel and why do we need a ViewModel for an ASP.NET MVC Application? If I get a good example about its working and explanation that would be better. 15 Answers 15 A view model represents … Read more
I want to output two different views (one as a string that will be sent as an email), and the other the page displayed to a user. Is this possible in ASP.NET MVC beta? I’ve tried multiple examples: 1. RenderPartial to String in ASP.NET MVC Beta If I use this example, I receive the “Cannot … Read more
I want to get all the error messages out of the modelState without knowing the key values. Looping through to grab all the error messages that the ModelState contains. How can I do this? 20 s 20 Using LINQ: IEnumerable<ModelError> allErrors = ModelState.Values.SelectMany(v => v.Errors);
I am configuring an MVC 3 project to work on a local install of IIS and came across the following 500 error: Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list. It turns out that this is because ASP.Net was not completely installed with IIS even though I checked that box in the … Read more
I’m at wit’s end. Visual Studio is typically painfully slow to debug or just plain load (“start without debugging”) my ASP.NET MVC sites. Not always: at first, the projects will load nice and fast, but once they load slow, they’ll always load slowly after that. I could be waiting 1-2 minutes or more. My setup: … Read more
I am trying to use ELMAH to log errors in my ASP.NET MVC application, however when I use the [HandleError] attribute on my controllers ELMAH doesn’t log any errors when they occur. As I am guessing its because ELMAH only logs unhandled errors and the [HandleError] attribute is handling the error so thus no need … Read more
In my AJAX call, I want to return a string value back to the calling page. Should I use ActionResult or just return a string? 7 s 7 You can just use the ContentResult to return a plain string: public ActionResult Temp() { return Content(“Hi there!”); } ContentResult by default returns a text/plain as its … Read more
