Dot Net Tricks Tutorial - For Beginners & Professionals

Custom Razor View Engine for C# and VB

You should be happy to know, Asp.Net MVC is an open source and highly extensible framework. You can customized it according to your need. As you read my previous article Removing the Web Form View Engine for better performance of Razor View Engine from your Asp.Net MVC Razor application. In this article, you will learn how can you customize the Razor View engine for C# and VB language.

 

Enhancing WebGrid with Insert Update and Delete Operations

Many developers want to do Insert, Update and Delete with in WebGrid like as GridView, but don't know how to do it. This article will help you to do the CRUD operations with in WebGrid.

 

RenderPartial vs RenderAction vs Partial vs Action in MVC Razor

There are different ways for rendering a partial view in MVC Razor. Many developers got confused whether to use RenderPartial or RenderAction or Partial or Action helper methods for rendering a partial view. In this article, I would like to expose the difference among Html.RenderPartial, Html.RenderAction, Html.Partial & Html.Action.

 

How to upload a file in ASP.MVC

Uploading a file in Asp.Net MVC application is very easy. The posted file is automatically available as a HttpPostedFileBase parameters in the action of the controler. For uploading a file on the server you required to have a file input control with in html form having encoding type set to multipart/form-data.

 

Enhancing WebGrid with ajax in MVC4

In previous posts I have explained how can we do custom paging and sorting in WebGrid. You can also enhance WebGrid with ajax for asynchronous update of webpage.For making an Ajax WebGrid, we have to set the value of ajaxUpdateContainerId parameter, in which we want to generate the WebGrid. Usually the container should be a DIV as show below:

 

WebGrid with custom paging and sorting in ASP.NET MVC

WebGrid is simply used to display the data with paging and sorting. If you want to control the default behavior of the webgrid, you need do it manually. In this article, I would like to explore how can we do custom paging and sorting. In this article I have used the MVC4 and Entity Framework 5.0 with VS2012.

 

File upload with strongly typed view and model validation

Many times, we required to upload file with strongly-typed view and also apply validation on uploading file using data annotation validators. In this article, I would like to share, how can we upload a file and validate that file, firstly at client side and after that at server side.

 

Securing Asp.Net MVC Application by using Authorize Attribute

Authorization is the process of determining the rights of an authenticated user for accessing the application's resources. The Asp.Net MVC Framework has a AuthorizeAttribute filter for filtering the authorized user to access a resource.

 

Controlling Session Behavior in Asp.Net MVC4

By default, Asp.Net MVC support session state. Session is used to store data values across requests. Whether you store some data values with in the session or not Asp.Net MVC must manage the session state for all the controllers in your application that is time consuming. Since, session is stored on server side and consumes server memory, hence it also affect your application performance.

 

Understanding Model View Controller in Asp.Net MVC

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern was introduced in 1970s. It is a software design pattern that splits an application into three main aspects : Model, View and Controller. Moreover, MVC pattern forces a separation of concerns within an application or example, separating data access logic and business logic from the UI.

 

Understanding Caching in Asp.Net MVC with example

Caching is a most important aspect of high-performance web application. Caching provides a way of storing frequently accessed data and reusing that data. Practically, this is an effective way for improving web application’s performance.

 

Bundling and minification in MVC3 and Asp.Net 4.0

You can also implement bundling and minification technique with in Asp.net MVC3 and Asp.net 4.0. In previous article Asp.net MVC 4 performance optimization with bundling and minification, I have explained both the techniques, Now I would like to share you could you achieve this functionality with .Net Framework 4.0.

 

Asp.net MVC 4 performance optimization with bundling and minification

MVC4 and .Net Framework 4.5 offer bundling and minification techniques that reduce the number of request to the server and size of requested CSS and JavaScript library, which improve page loading time.

 

MVC Areas with example

Areas was introduced in Asp.net MVC2 which allow us to organize models, views, and controllers into separate functional sections of the application, such as administration, billing, customer support, and so on. This is very helpful in a large web application, where all the controllers, views, and models have a single set of folders and that become difficult to manage.

 

Resolve Ambiguous Controller Error by routes

In previous articles, I have described the Routing System and how to create Route Constraints in your application. Now the time is to resolve the common error "multiple matching controllers were found" raised by the routing system when your application have more than one controller with the same name in different namespace.