This is an update to my previous post “ASP.NET MVC 3: Use re-mix library to add controller actions with mixins”. In November last year I implemented a prototypical approach that uses mixins to add actions to ASP.NET MVC 3 controllers. Since .NET does not support the mixin concept out of the box, I used …
Read more…ASP.NET MVC 3: Support multiple submit buttons in one form with HTML Helper MultiSubmitButton
Out of the box ASP.NET MVC 3 only supports one submit button for each form. To be more precise: The MVC 3 framework only supports one submit action for each form, i.e. all submit buttons in the form post the data to the same URL (the URL that is defined in the action attribute …
Read more…ASP.NET MVC 3: Async jQuery progress indicator for long running tasks
If you have long running (server side) tasks in your ASP.NET MVC 3 web application it could be reasonable to provide the user with information about the current progress of this task. In this blog post I will show how such a progress indicator could be implemented using jQuery and AJAX.
The basic idea is …
Read more…ASP.NET development: Features, tips & tricks you should know about
In this blog post I will list features, tips and tricks that one should know about when developing ASP.NET web applications (some of them will also work for ASP.NET MVC applications). The points listed below are not sorted in any way; it’s just a conglomeration of things that only need little (programming) effort to …
Read more…ASP.NET MVC 3: Set up custom error pages to handle errors in “non-AJAX” requests and jQuery AJAX requests
In this blog post I will show how to set up custom error pages in ASP.NET MVC 3 applications to show user-friendly error messages instead of the (yellow) IIS default error pages for both “normal” (non-AJAX) requests and jQuery AJAX requests.
In this showcase we will implement custom error pages to handle the HTTP …
Read more…ASP.NET MVC 3: Use re-mix library to add controller actions with mixins
Update 2012-01-15 I’ve written a follow-up post “ASP.NET MVC 3: Use re-mix library to add controller actions with mixins – Part 2″ that shows how to integrate Fabian’s suggestions into the approach described in this post.
Update 2012-01-10 Fabian Schmied (re-mix developer) published a blog post “re-mix: Encapsulate and share ASP.NET MVC controller actions” which …
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