I had a quick and dirty project to take some XML that was stored in our database and display it on a web page in an existing site. Normally I’d have a fairly large amount of client side tooling to perform this job, but the site was entirely based in WebForms and I really did …
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I wasn’t quite clear how to do this and I’m not sure my solution is the best approach, but it certainly falls within the realm of normal functionality included in ASP.NET MVC. The page I wanted to have was a partial view that listed out comments associated with a particular model object. So, if someone …
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We still have an old VBScript app at my work and in an effort to eliminate it and replace it with something .NET we’ve started porting it to VB.NET. I won’t go into why it isn’t being completely rewritten. Anyway, the app has a host of include files and when I started looking to move …
Lesson learned. Don’t name your partial views the same as your normal views. Login.cshtml under Views/Shared Login.cshtml under Views/Login tries to call Html.RenderPartial(“Login”) Stackoverflow Exception because the rendering engine ends up searching the Views/Shared after everything else and ends up recursively calling Views/Login/Login.cshtml. Renaming the shared View to _Login.cshtml obviously fixed the issue. Partial Views …
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I’m using markitup for a textbox editor. I’m also using jQuery UI for dragging and dropping. I wanted to drag and drop images onto the textbox that is being formatted by markitup and have the image url show up in the box. I started out using append to do this and it seemed to be …
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Silly thing this. Found this link. In my case this was caused by not selecting the primary key for the table in SQL Server I was generating the entity set against and then attempting to call the Entity Framework AddObject method with the generated entity. I’m pretty sure that this sort of error will occur …
After implementing the slider control from jQuery UI with our video player I was quite happy with the overall performance and the look and feel, unfortunately I experienced some headaches when it was deployed as the setup I had implemented did not work with IE8 in the compatibility mode. Now, thankfully the app was for …
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