MvcContrib: an Outercurve Foundation project

Created Unassigned: MVCContrib IncludeCombiner issue with load balancer [7224]

trivedi_tejas24 — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:49:41 GMT

Hi

MVCContrib includecombiner gives an javascript error on loadbalancer environment. Unique key generated for JS/CSS resources which may not found when request it goes to other server.

is there any solution to this issue ?

Regards,
Tejas

Created Unassigned: Pagination [7223]

cdkisa — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:42:07 GMT

Please add the ability to add an additional CSS class name or other identifier so that if you wish to have a top and bottom pager they may be easily identified.

Created Unassigned: I wish to see EditorFor functions that return ActionResult as a controller extension [7222]

weitzhandler — Thu, 02 May 2013 00:40:28 GMT

[Here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4628536/75500) is what I mean:

```
public class CustomControllerBase : Controller
{
public PartialViewResult EditorFor(object model)
{
return PartialView("EditorTemplates/" + model.GetType().Name, model);
}

public PartialViewResult DisplayFor(object model)
{
return PartialView("DisplayTemplates/" + model.GetType().Name, model);
}
}

//Have the controller (called, say, MyController) inherit from CustomControllerBase, and then:

public ActionResult MyAction(int id)
{
return EditorFor(new MyViewModel(id));
}
```

Edited Issue: EmbeddedResourceController functionality broken with IISExpress8 / VS2012 [7221]

jptillman — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:14:25 GMT

Config: VS2012, MVC3, IISExpress8

Problem:

Followed instructions on this blog post to install MvcContrib and create a Portable Area:
http://elegantcode.com/2012/04/06/mvc-portable-areas/

The Controllers/Views were working, but loading of scripts/css/imgs was broken.

What I did to figure things out:

Troubleshooting revealed that IIS8 was returning a basic 404 error message and that the module being executed was the StaticFile module, not the MvcRouting module. Further experimentation showed that the problem was occurring because my URLs looked like this:

```
http://server:1234/AreaName/Content/Site.css
```

And my route was set up like this:

```
context.MapRoute(
AreaName + "_content",
base.AreaRoutePrefix + "/Content/{*resourceName}",
new { controller = "EmbeddedResource", action = "Index", resourcePath = "Content" },
new[] { "MvcContrib.PortableAreas" }
);
```

It was the period (".") in the filename that was causing the route to be bypassed. I verified this by creating a file with no period, which resulted in EmbeddedResourceManager failing in a different way because it couldn't determine the MIME type of the file (a different issue altogether)

What fixed it for me:

The problem and solution are discussed here:
[http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/226]

I used the web.config mod mentioned in that posting and my problem disappeared.

Additional Concerns:

I'm very surprised that I spent an entire day debugging a problem with EmbeddedResourceController in which the basic functionality enabled by that feature is broken with the "out of the box" config that VS2012 uses with IIS Express 8 and there are no issues reported here related to it at all.

It makes me worry that I'm using MvcContrib when I shouldn't be, or that I'm using it in some non-standard way. Can someone confirm for me that using MvcContrib with VS2012 / IISExpress8 is not an obsolete or deprecated configuration, and that the issue I describe above really is an issue for someone besides just me?

Posts like this one don't give me much confidence, or much guidance, as all it says is that "Nuget allows us to package the views, css, and javascript files into a nuget package as the method for distributing Portable Areas now." without any pointers to how it does that:
[http://lostechies.com/erichexter/2012/11/26/portable-areas-3-years-later/]

Created Issue: EmbeddedResourceController functionality broken with IISExpress8 / VS2012 [7221]

jptillman — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:13:39 GMT

Config: VS2012, MVC3, IISExpress8

Problem:

Followed instructions on this blog post to install MvcContrib and create a Portable Area:
http://elegantcode.com/2012/04/06/mvc-portable-areas/

The Controllers/Views were working, but loading of scripts/css/imgs was broken.

What I did to figure things out:

Troubleshooting revealed that IIS8 was returning a basic 404 error message and that the module being executed was the StaticFile module, not the MvcRouting module. Further experimentation showed that the problem was occurring because my URLs looked like this:

```
http://server:1234/AreaName/Content/Site.css
```

And a route set up like this:

```
context.MapRoute(
AreaName + "_content",
base.AreaRoutePrefix + "/Content/{*resourceName}",
new { controller = "EmbeddedResource", action = "Index", resourcePath = "Content" },
new[] { "MvcContrib.PortableAreas" }
);
```

It was the period (".") in the filename that was causing the route to be bypassed. I verified this by creating a file with no period, which resulted in EmbeddedResourceManager failing in a different way because it couldn't determine the MIME type of the file (a different issue altogether)

What fixed it for me:

The problem and solution are discussed here:
[http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/226]

I used the web.config mod mentioned in that posting and my problem disappeared.

Additional Concerns:

I'm very surprised that I spent an entire day debugging a problem with EmbeddedResourceController in which the basic functionality enabled by that feature is broken with the "out of the box" config that VS2012 uses with IIS Express 8 and there are no issues reported here related to it at all.

It makes me worry that I'm using MvcContrib when I shouldn't be, or that I'm using it in some non-standard way. Can someone confirm for me that using MvcContrib with VS2012 / IISExpress8 is not an obsolete or deprecated configuration, and that the issue I describe above really is an issue for someone besides just me?

Posts like this one don't give me much confidence, or much guidance, as all it says is that "Nuget allows us to package the views, css, and javascript files into a nuget package as the method for distributing Portable Areas now." without any pointers to how it does that:
[http://lostechies.com/erichexter/2012/11/26/portable-areas-3-years-later/]

Created Issue: RunTime column name [7220]

kavehsh — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:25:00 GMT

It would be very helpful to be able to assign Column names passing the Model/ViewContext.
Currently :
Column.For(row => row.GetPeriodAmount(1)).Named(Model.GetPeriodName(1));
at the moment I cannot create a GridModel because I wont have access to Model/ViewContext there.

Possible:
Column.For(row => row.GetPeriodAmount(1)).Named( ViewContext.Model.GetPeriodName(1));

Created Issue: No anchor helper [7219]

mgwalm — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:04:58 GMT

I don't know if im missing something but I cant find any helper in FluentHTML to produce an anchor.

Im not sure what other html is missing but the first thing I wanted to try using FluentHTML for was an anchor element and I cant find it.

Why?

Commented Issue: MvcContrib does not have a strong name. [7087]

StevePhillips — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:24:38 GMT

Because MvcContrib does not have a strong name, it cannot be referenced in strong-named projects. It would be helpful if the MvcContrib libraries were signed with a strong name key.
Comments: When is this going to get done? 1. Its a stupidly easy thing to do. 2. Why wasn't it done when the project was created! It's madness we have had to download the source ourselves to fix this rather than get it from NuGet!

Commented Issue: Need extension method to controllerExtension RedirectToAction [7209]

Kaur — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:47:57 GMT

I am using portable ares in my application. I had a controller in standard area and one in poratble area. I want to redirect to an action on Poratble controller from standard controller. To do so I need to pass AreaName/ControllerName and Action name to redirectToAction method. But my problem is here I want to use ControllerExtensions redirectToAction as I want to pass some parameter with this redirect. But controllerExtension does not provide any way in which i can pass AreaName with controller. So I have written a new method in COntrollerExtension which takes three arguments last one for AreaName. Please have a look into attached class. This solves my problem.
Comments: Nice post. I was stuck on this point...this was really helpfull. Thanks

Created Issue: 4 Records Exist, but Grid is Empty [7218]

EMB01 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:06:14 GMT

In my controller, I have:
```
ViewBag.Count = db.Directories.Count();

return View(db.Directories.ToList());
```
In my view I have:

```
@model IEnumerable<MvcApplication1.Models.DIRECTORY_USER>

@using MvcContrib.UI.Grid

ViewBag.Count = @ViewBag.Count
<table>
@foreach (var item in Model)
{
<tr>
<td>@item.ID</td>
<td>@item.USER_ID</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
@Html.Grid(Model)
```

The output I get is:

```
ViewBag.Count = 4
<table>
<tr>
<td>39d3fe7f-fb1c-4c0f-948e-43093f1d7f85</td>
<td>265ca3c1-9890-4680-b10c-8c7c5e22b26f</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>f07f0aee-3948-473a-873f-74d446030d36</td>
<td>229db054-e62c-4981-878e-cd0bd5c9a1ac</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>a92440cd-9393-4d1b-abfb-e705ea739c59</td>
<td>4cd997cf-1715-43b0-9354-0ddf90f33fe6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7c265ae0-7c8e-4dd3-ae76-f52e95138b6e</td>
<td>45254c9a-f078-4d50-bdc8-3e823bdcce41</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="grid"><thead><tr></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="gridrow"></tr><tr class="gridrow_alternate"></tr><tr class="gridrow"></tr><tr class="gridrow_alternate"></tr></tbody></table>

```

If the records are being shown in my `foreach`, then why won't they show in the grid? I don't seem to have any errors anywhere. What can I do to make the grid work?

Commented Issue: Code bug due to "IMessageHandler" interface name [7151]

jpjerkins — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:29:54 GMT

We found issue with using MVCContrib Portable area's due to below code bug in Bus.cs file.

In the Bus.cs file, there is an method "IsValidType(Type type)" which returns True value if the Type is an type of IMessageHandler interface. Here instead of comparing with the fully qualified name of IMessageHandler interface name it is just comparing with the IMessageHandler name.

We also have an interface "IMessageHandler" in our solution. Due to this conflict application bus also adding our classes also as MVCContrib IMessageHandler interface types. This is resulting an issue.

Please fix the below code in Bus.cs file.

Method name: "public static bool IsValidType(Type type)"
Code fix:
Original code line: bool isIMessageHandler = type.GetInterface(typeof(IMessageHandler).Name) != null;
Change to new code line: bool isIMessageHandler = type.GetInterface(typeof(IMessageHandler).FullName) != null;

Thanks,
Ravi Kura.

Comments: I've submitted a pull request for a fork that contains this fix (jpjerkinsFix7151). I, too, ran into the problem when trying to add ServiceStack to a project that used MvcContrib - that's actually my motivation to see this bug fixed.

Edited Issue: FluentHtml Expression overloads in vs2012/razor [7217]

jmarr — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:22:41 GMT

After installing the latest "MvcContrib.Mvc3.FluentHtml-ci" via Nuget, I am unable to get the FluentHtml expression overloads working. (The regular text based overloads work fine). <br /><br />I am using VS 2012 and the Razor view engine. <br /><br />I have tried inheriting the view from "MvcContrib.FluentHtml.ModelWebViewPage<T>", but still no go. <br /><br />Also, I have added "MvcContrib.FluentHtml" to my web.config / system.web.webPages.razor / pages.<br /><br />EDIT: It occurred to me immediately after posting that I am using MVC4, and the Nuget package specifically says "MVC3". So I will take that to mean that MvcContrib does not officially support MVC4, thus making this a non-issue!<br />

Created Issue: FluentHtml Expression overloads in vs2012/razor [7217]

jmarr — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:18:01 GMT

Created Issue: ASP.Net MVC4 - Multiple file upload [7216]

Mukul_Jain — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:30:38 GMT

Hi
I need to create a MVC app which should allow the user to select multiple files and upload them on teh file share. Further processing needs to be then carried on.
Can we do it using MvcContrib?
If not, any other pointers will behelpful.

Thanks

Created Issue: Portable areas - MVC4 support? [7215]

Mathetes — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:16:43 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to use this lib in a MVC4 web application, but I keep getting exceptions whenever using any HtmlHelper method in my area views. I can only suppose this is due to the different version of MVC being used. I get exceptions like the following (see below). Could anyone suggest a workaround, or does anybody know if there are plans for supporting portable areas for MVC4? Thanks!

System.NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code
HResult=-2147467261
Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source=App_Web_field.master.5f132152.8jdnc_7s
StackTrace:
at ASP.views_inputbuilders_editortemplates_field_master.__Render__control1(HtmlTextWriter __w, Control parameterContainer) in http://server/Views/InputBuilders/EditorTemplates/Field.Master:line 5
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildrenInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ICollection children)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Control.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControlInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildrenInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ICollection children)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Page.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControlInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
InnerException: (none)

New Comment on "TestHelper"

MasterZZZZ — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:53:53 GMT

Hi, I imported mvcContrib but I get the can't resolve ShouldMapTo

New Comment on "Grid"

ngruson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:54:47 GMT

How can I handle editing data using the Grid? I'm binding the grid to a collection which is a property of my model. When I edit data in the grid, how is the changed data reflected back to the model? Have been searching for an example, but couldn't find any.

Updated Wiki: Home

erichexter — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:22:10 GMT

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