How to create Select List for Country and States/province in MVC

public static List<SelectListItem> States = new List<SelectListItem>() { new SelectListItem() {Text=”Alabama”, Value=”AL”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”Alaska”, Value=”AK”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”Arizona”, Value=”AZ”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”Arkansas”, Value=”AR”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”California”, Value=”CA”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”Colorado”, Value=”CO”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”Connecticut”, Value=”CT”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”District of Columbia”, Value=”DC”}, new SelectListItem() { Text=”Delaware”, Value=”DE”}, new … Read more

How do I integrate Perfidies (Browser plug-in vulnerability scanner) into my website?

You should provide some more context to your question. I will try to help you though suggesting a way to do this. You mentioned you want to disallow users to login, so I think the best way to do this is putting the validation code in the login page as a javascript include. Keep in … Read more

Hourly, Daily, Monthly Helper+Model methods

You can create daily,monthly and yearly data by using the same logic. You just have to replace Hour with Day,Month or Year. List<dynamic> dailyData = new List<dynamic>(); DateTime dayIterator = StartDate.Value; while (dayIterator.Hour <= ddvm.CurrentDay) { if (ddvm.DailyPaymentTotal != null && ddvm.DailyPaymentTotal.Count() > 0 ) { DailyPaymentTotalModel day = ddvm.DailyPaymentTotal.FirstOrDefault(hpt => hpt.DateTimeStamp == dayIterator); if … Read more

Bug in MVC3 – requests never time out. Works fine for aspx pages in same project

I found the cause for this, methinks: This method is in the WrappedAsyncResult class, which the MvcHandler class uses via BeginProcessRequest: public static IAsyncResult BeginSynchronous<TResult>(AsyncCallback callback, object state, Func<TResult> func, object tag) { BeginInvokeDelegate beginDelegate = delegate (AsyncCallback asyncCallback, object asyncState) { SimpleAsyncResult result = new SimpleAsyncResult(asyncState); result.MarkCompleted(true, asyncCallback); return result; }; EndInvokeDelegate<TResult> endDelegate = … Read more

Invalidate Old Session Cookie – ASP.Net Identity

Make sure you use AuthenticationManager.Signout(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie); as correctly suggested by Jamie. Being able to login with the same cookie again is by design. Identity does not create internal sessions to track all logged-in users and if OWIN gets cookie that hits all the boxes (i.e. copies from the previous session), it’ll let you login. If you … Read more

Can I use a Tag Helper in a custom Tag Helper that returns html?

No you cannot. TagHelpers are a Razor parse time feature. One alternative is creating a TagHelper and manually invoking its ProcessAsync/Process method. Aka: var anchorTagHelper = new AnchorTagHelper { Action = “Home”, }; var anchorOutput = new TagHelperOutput(“a”, new TagHelperAttributeList(), (useCachedResult, encoder) => new HtmlString()); var anchorContext = new TagHelperContext( new TagHelperAttributeList(new[] { new TagHelperAttribute(“asp-action”, … Read more

How should I set up my integration tests to use a test database with Entity Framework?

Thanks so much to @Justin and @Petro for your answers, which have helped me immensely. The solution I have come up with is a combination of the techniques you suggested. The solution described below provides a new database for each run of the tests, and a separate transaction for each test. I added a connection … Read more