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How to get the Display Name Attribute of an Enum member via MVC Razor code?

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One liner – Fluent syntax public static class Extensions { /// <summary> /// A generic extension method that aids in reflecting /// and retrieving any attribute that is applied to an `Enum`. /// </summary> public static TAttribute GetAttribute<TAttribute>(this Enum enumValue) where TAttribute : Attribute { return enumValue.GetType() .GetMember(enumValue.ToString()) .First() .GetCustomAttribute<TAttribute>(); } } Example public enum … Read more

ASP.NET MVC 3 – Partial vs Display Template vs Editor Template

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EditorFor vs DisplayFor is simple. The semantics of the methods is to generate edit/insert and display/read only views (respectively). Use DisplayFor when displaying data (i.e. when you generate divs and spans that contain the model values). Use EditorFor when editing/inserting data (i.e. when you generate input tags inside a form). The above methods are model-centric. … Read more

How do I specify different Layouts in the ASP.NET MVC 3 razor ViewStart file?

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You could put a _ViewStart.cshtml file inside the /Views/Public folder which would override the default one in the /Views folder and specify the desired layout: @{ Layout = “~/Views/Shared/_PublicLayout.cshtml”; } By analogy you could put another _ViewStart.cshtml file inside the /Views/Staff folder with: @{ Layout = “~/Views/Shared/_StaffLayout.cshtml”; } You could also specify which layout should … Read more

HTML.ActionLink vs Url.Action in ASP.NET Razor

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Yes, there is a difference. Html.ActionLink generates an <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7709001/..”></a> tag whereas Url.Action returns only an url. For example: @Html.ActionLink(“link text”, “someaction”, “somecontroller”, new { id = “123” }, null) generates: <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/somecontroller/someaction/123″>link text</a> and Url.Action(“someaction”, “somecontroller”, new { id = “123” }) generates: /somecontroller/someaction/123 There is also Html.Action which executes a child controller action.

ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison

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ASP.NET MVC View Engines (Community Wiki) Since a comprehensive list does not appear to exist, let’s start one here on SO. This can be of great value to the ASP.NET MVC community if people add their experience (esp. anyone who contributed to one of these). Anything implementing IViewEngine (e.g. VirtualPathProviderViewEngine) is fair game here. Just … Read more

Injecting content into specific sections from a partial view ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor View Engine

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Sections don’t work in partial views and that’s by design. You may use some custom helpers to achieve similar behavior, but honestly it’s the view’s responsibility to include the necessary scripts, not the partial’s responsibility. I would recommend using the @scripts section of the main view to do that and not have the partials worry … Read more

Styles.Render in MVC4

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It’s calling the files included in that particular bundle which is declared inside the BundleConfig class in the App_Start folder. In that particular case The call to @Styles.Render(“~/Content/css”) is calling “~/Content/site.css”. bundles.Add(new StyleBundle(“~/Content/css”).Include(“~/Content/site.css”));

How to declare a local variable in Razor?

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I think you were pretty close, try this: @{bool isUserConnected = string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.CreatorFullName);} @if (isUserConnected) { // meaning that the viewing user has not been saved so continue <div> <div> click to join us </div> <a id=”login” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6601715/javascript:void(0);” style=”display: inline; “>join here</a> </div> }

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