As a general consideration, circular dependencies indicate a design flaw – I think I can safely say this since you are not the original author of the code 🙂 I wouldn’t consider an Initialize method a good solution. Unless you are dealing with an add-in scenario (which you aren’t), Method Injection is not the right … Read more
Here is a solution that doesn’t require mocking: var request = new HttpRequest(null, “http://localhost:3333/Home/About”, “testvalue=1”); var response = new HttpResponse(new StringWriter()); var httpContext = new HttpContext(request, response); var routeData = RouteTable.Routes.GetRouteData(new HttpContextWrapper(httpContext)); var values = routeData.Values; // The following should be true for initial version of mvc app. values[“controller”] == “Home” values[“action”] == “Index” Hope … Read more
You could use a byte[] on your model and a HttpPostedFileBase on your view model. For example: public class MyViewModel { [Required] public HttpPostedFileBase File { get; set; } } and then: public class HomeController: Controller { public ActionResult Index() { var model = new MyViewModel(); return View(model); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Index(MyViewModel model) { … Read more
I think the problem is a confusion regarding the DropDownList overloads: Html.DropDownList(string name) looks for a view model property of name and type IEnumerable<SelectListItem>. It will use the selected item (SelectListItem.Selected == true) from the list, unless there is a form post value of the same name. Html.DropDownList(string name, IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectList) uses the items from … Read more
I’m using a version of some code Steve Sanderson included in his Pro Asp.NET MVC book… and I’m currently having a moral dilemma whether it’s okay to post the code here. How about I compromise with a highly stripped down version? 😉 So this can easily be reused, create a class similar to the one … Read more
You shouldn’t try to supply the AcmeDataContext itself to the EmployeeRepository. I would even turn the whole thing around: Define a factory that allows creating a new unit of work for the Acme domain: Create an abstract AcmeUnitOfWork that abstracts away LINQ to SQL. Create a concrete factory that can allows creating new LINQ to … Read more
The solution is somewhat more simple than you have started implementing. But the idea is the same: every time user logs in, change their security stamp. And this will invalidate all other login sessions. Thus will teach users not to share their password. I have just created a new MVC5 application from standard VS2013 template … Read more
Let’s say you have a Login action which provides the user with a login screen, then receives the user name and password back after the user submits the form: public ActionResult Login() { return View(); } public ActionResult Login(string userName, string password) { // do login stuff return View(); } MVC isn’t being given clear … Read more
It seems that if Content-Type: application/json and if POST body isn’t tightly bound to controller’s input object class Then MVC doesn’t really bind the POST body to any particular class. Nor can you just fetch the POST body as a param of the ActionResult (suggested in another answer). Fair enough. You need to fetch it … Read more
You can use “IIS 7.0 Hostable Web Core” and host the web server as part of any user process, even a console application. The benefit is that it is very similar to full blown IIS (incl config etc) but the web server itself is running in your process. Have a look at the following articles: … Read more