ITORIAN BLOG

In my last blog post I talked about ‘ retrieving views from different folders in MVC ’ and it works cool when we want view pages always inside Views folder (which is on the project root) but our requirement not ends here. The new version "Area in MVC 5" is  available  here.

In this post you will learn how to retrieve the views which is inside another folder. For example a view which is inside folder Views|Application|General|Index.cshtml. How will you map it or use it from controller? Is this possible?

In this video you will learn how to create simple Feedback Submission Form. In the journey, I will explain the use of Code First Approach and Code First Database Migrations and also Sever Side Validations and Client Side Validations to validation the data entered by the user.

It is often required live ‘username’ checking on user registration page in web applications. Today I developed this for my one of the web application and would like to share that with you.

ELMAH is an alternative to HMS (Health Monitoring System) for logging errors which is free and available under open-source which is created and managed by Atif Aziz . HMS was ( was...why? ) great ( with few pains ) because it has option to capture all events as well as errors. With HMS developers has to design the UI for viewing the log information but with ELMAH, you just need to hit a URL to view log information.

In this article you will learn how to remove or customize View Engines which is not being used by application.

In this article you will learn how to enable password resetting (in case user forgot the password) with Simple Membership in MVC. User needs to type his username and system will check its existence, if found correct this will send an email containing dynamically generated URL with username and password reset token.

In this article you will learn everything about ‘Output Caching in MVC’. I will take you by showing some real examples to make your view crystal clear.

In this article you will learn what CSRF is and best way to prevent such attacks. After a quick introduction about CSRF I will show you an example where attacker will change the profile information with one-click.

In this article you will learn how to avoid XSS attacks in MVC Application with Microsoft’s AntiXSS library. I will show you a case where user will submit the  malicious  HTML markup with message and it will start displaying annoying alert. Then I will move on and show you how to prevent it with AntiXSS.

In the last post jQuery Ajax GET and POST calls to Controller's Method in MVC we saw an example on ‘ GET call with parameter to Controller’s Method which will return JSON data ’ (in case you missed, go and read that before continuing here), let me put the screenshot here.

In this blog post I am going to cover some really interesting stuff which is very useful today in web application developments. You will learn how to make jQuery Ajax GET and POST calls to controller methods.

In this post you will learn use of Ajax.ActionLink helper and Html.ActionLink. I will compare both to show you how it is different. Okay, let’s begin with Html.ActionLink.

I would call this post as Tips/Tricks post because this post contains information about Visual Studio IDE features. I can see large number of developers are not familiar with these features. So, I thought writing a blog post collecting searching, replacing and navigating tips which is vital to happy and productive.

In this blog post you will learn how to create cascading DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC. I will take you through step by step approach so, let’s begin.

In this post you will learn how to create a self validatable object using IValidatableObject to validate data in MVC.

In this post you will learn how to bind data to a DropDownList helper in MVC. We will try binding data to a DropDownList from a List<SelectListItem>, a List<Model> and also from a database.

Hello Folks. The videos listed in this post are not mine, these are recorded by Microsoft people for the community. I hope this can be useful.

This quick post is a response to a question I received today on Facebook. Please follow the steps to add metatags on .cshtml pages:-

Hello Friends! Happy New Year to all of you, may your new year be blessed with peace, love and joy. I’m sending you my heartfelt wishes with joy that never ends. It’s time to forget all the past and think ahead.

When you add a new View in MVC, you get an opportunity to create it strongly typed. In the image given below, when you check ‘Create a strongly-typed view’ and select the ‘Model class’ you get following code snippet on the view page.

One of the best feature in Razor view engine that I like most is ‘HTML Encoding’. In many cases (like a comment form on blog) we receive the data from users and he may be trying to victimize us by sending some malicious scripts causes cross-site script injection attacks (aka XSS attack).

In this video you will learn how to deploy ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application on Windows Azure environment. Sorry for the noisy video.

Today I added a new user in my existing database for some web application experiments and when I tried to delete the user I received following error message.

In this post you will learn how developers take the advantage of  Modernizr   in MVC 4 Applications.

In this blog post you will learn how to setup the Twitter RSS Feed Reader in MVC 4. I’m using the same technique I used in my last post to read the Facebook feeds. Let’s look at the image that we will be creating using the given code.

In this blog post you will learn how to setup the Facebook RSS Feed Reader in MVC 4. Let’s look at an image of what we will be creating in this post; see:

In this post you will learn how to add Email and Details columns to an existing database. We get this database when running an application trying to create a new user account. As you know, we don’t see an email field in a user registration form as well as in the membership database. But we can enable this using some quick changes in the application. Read on.

Consolidating all blog posts monthly are very refreshing as it gives me chance to go back and see what I did in last month and for readers gives the chance to see what he not followed up.

This is a quick response post to the blog reader ‘V Patel’ who asked this question yesterday. Here is the question:

Today, I spent couple of hours in finding solution to enable the use of Datepicker in MVC 4 Application.

In this quick post you will learn various ways to filter records in MVC. Before starting let’s have a quick look at a controller and view page that I will use in this article. I will be using the SQL Server Northwind sample database in this article, you can download it from the Microsoft website and set up the same project to explore it.