How can I pass parameters to a partial view in mvc 4

Your question is hard to understand, but if I’m getting the gist, you simply have some value in your main view that you want to access in a partial being rendered in that view. If you just render a partial with just the partial name: @Html.Partial(“_SomePartial”) It will actually pass your model as an implicit … Read more

Add CSS or JavaScript files to layout head from views or partial views

Layout: <html> <head> <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> <title>@ViewBag.Title</title> <link href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5110028/@Url.Content(“~/Content/Site.css”)” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” /> <script src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5110028/@Url.Content(“~/Scripts/jquery-1.6.2.min.js”)” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5110028/@Url.Content(“~/Scripts/modernizr-2.0.6-development-only.js”)” type=”text/javascript”></script> @if (IsSectionDefined(“AddToHead”)) { @RenderSection(“AddToHead”, required: false) } @RenderSection(“AddToHeadAnotherWay”, required: false) </head> View: @model ProjectsExt.Models.DirectoryObject @section AddToHead{ <link href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5110028/@Url.Content(“~/Content/Upload.css”)” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” /> }

Differences between Html.TextboxFor and Html.EditorFor in MVC and Razor

The advantages of EditorFor is that your code is not tied to an <input type=”text”. So if you decide to change something to the aspect of how your textboxes are rendered like wrapping them in a div you could simply write a custom editor template (~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/string.cshtml) and all your textboxes in your application will automatically … Read more

How can I add a class attribute to an HTML element generated by MVC’s HTML Helpers?

In order to create an anonymous type (or any type) with a property that has a reserved keyword as its name in C#, you can prepend the property name with an at sign, @: Html.BeginForm(“Foo”, “Bar”, FormMethod.Post, new { @class = “myclass”}) For VB.NET this syntax would be accomplished using the dot, ., which in … Read more

MVC 4 @Scripts “does not exist”

The key here is to add <add namespace=”System.Web.Optimization” /> to BOTH web.config files. My scenario was that I had System.Web.Optimization reference in both project and the main/root web.config but @Scripts still didn’t work properly. You need to add the namespace reference to the Views web.config file to make it work. UPDATE: Since the release of … Read more

Where and how is the _ViewStart.cshtml layout file linked?

From ScottGu’s blog: Starting with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta release, you can now add a file called _ViewStart.cshtml (or _ViewStart.vbhtml for VB) underneath the \Views folder of your project: The _ViewStart file can be used to define common view code that you want to execute at the start of each View’s rendering. For example, … Read more