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Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript
Aug 1119In a recent blog post, I wrote a a controller inspector to demonstrate Controller and Action Descriptors. In this blog post, I apply that knowledge to build something more useful. One pain point when you write Ajax heavy applications using ASP.NET MVC is managing the URLs that Routing generates on the server. These URLs aren’t accessible from code in a static JavaScript file. There are techniques to mitigate this: Generate the URLs in the view and pass them into the JavaScript API. This ...
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Model Metadata and Validation Localization using Conventions
Jul 1114By default, ASP.NET MVC leverages Data Annotations to provide validation. The approach is easy to get started with and allows the validation applied on the server to “float” to the client without any extra work. However, once you get localization involved, using Data Annotations can really clutter your models. For example, the following is a simple model class with two properties. public class Character { public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } } Noth...
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