The easiest JavaScript method is: var is_root = location.pathname == “https://stackoverflow.com/”; //Equals true if we’re at the root Even http://example.com/?foo=bar#hash will produce the right result, since the pathname excludes the query string and location hash. Have a look: http://anything-but-a-slash/ Root /?querystring Root /#hash Root /page Not root If you have index file(s) at your root … Read more
OK, I found it and it’s actually very simple. In my Views\Shared\DisplayTemplates folder I have Reading.cshtml containing the following: @model System.Int32 <span id=”@ViewData.ModelMetadata.PropertyName”>@Model</span> This renders the correct tag using the name of the property as the id attribute and the value of the property as the contents: <span id=”Reading”>1234</span> In the view file this can … Read more
You could do the same in MVC: <script type=”text/javascript”> function timedRefresh(timeoutPeriod) { setTimeout(function() { location.reload(true); }, timeoutPeriod); } </script> <body onload=”JavaScript:timedRefresh(5000);”> … </body> or using a meta tag: <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”5″ /> </head> <body> … </body> or in your controller action: public ActionResult Index() { Response.AddHeader(“Refresh”, “5”); return View(); }
In your view, you have to cast it back to the original type. Without the cast, it’s just an object. <td>@((ViewBag.data as ICollection<Person>).First().FirstName)</td> ViewBag is a C# 4 dynamic type. Entities returned from it are also dynamic unless cast. However, extension methods like .First() and all the other Linq ones do not work with dynamics. … Read more
Try this: @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Title, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = “form-control” } })
I know this is a few months old but the solutions here seemed needlessly complex and there’s no accepted answer yet. If you name your inputs the same but give them different values, you can get that value in your controller just by including a string with the name of the input as a variable. … Read more
A workaround is to use the Nuget Package Explorer and download the package you want into that. You can then edit the folders within the package using Package Explorer to suit your taste and save it into your own Nuget repository. This can be a file system folder or you can get more sophisticated here: … Read more
As I did not get a (valid) answer here, I asked a couple of people from Microsoft and they confirmed that it was not currently possible. Brad Wilson: At this time, only property level validators can emit client-side validation (as that lines up much better with the idea of input validation in the form of … Read more
When using SignalR hubs you can use the HubCallerContext.User property to: Gets the user that was part of the initial http request. So try it with: public Task Join() { string username = Context.User.Identity.Name; //find group based on username string group = getGroup(username) return Groups.Add(Context.ConnectionId, group); }
The FileStreamResult will do that for you. When in doubt always check the code, because the code never lies and since ASP.NET MVC is open source it’s even more easy to view the code. A quick search on Google for FileStreamResult.cs lets you verify that in the WriteFile method the stream is correctly disposed using … Read more