Category: MVC
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How to Implement the Repository Pattern in ASP.NET MVC Application
Read full article on the Infragistics blog The Repository Pattern is one of the most popular patterns to create an enterprise level application. It restricts us to work directly with the data in the application and creates new layers for database operations, business logic and the application’s UI. If an application does not follow the…
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How to Create a Custom Action Filter in ASP.NET MVC
Read full article on the Infragistics blog In ASP.NET MVC, Filters are used to inject logic at different levels of request processing and allow us to share logics across Controllers. For example, let’s say we want to run a security logic or a logging logic across the controller. To do so, we’ll write a filter…
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Creating a photo album for ASP.NET MVC 5 Users using Azure BLOB storage
In this blog post, we will integrate ASP.NET MVC with Azure BLOB Storage by saving an image for an ASP.NET Identity 2.0 user in Azure BLOB Storage. We’re going to cover a lot of ground in this post, including: Using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 user as reference in other table. Creating a one to many relationship…
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Creating Unit Tests for ASP.NET MVC Controllers
In this blog post, we will learn to write unit tests for various MVC controller’s behaviors, such as view’s return types, redirecting to different actions etc. Specifically, we’ll cover writing Unit Tests for: ViewData of the Controller TempData of the Controller ViewBag of the Controller View of the Controller Let’s get started! Creating the MVC…
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How to work with Enums in ASP.NET MVC
Recently I got a question from one of the readers that how to work with Enums in ASP.NET MVC? Before we move ahead in this post, let me tell you that it is very simple to work with Enums in ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and later. In MVC 5.1, HTML helper class EnumDropDownListFor has been introduced…
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Areas in ASP.NET MVC
Areas are some of the most important components of ASP.NET MVC projects. The main use of Areas are to physically partition web project in separate units. If you look into an ASP.NET MVC project, logical components like Model, Controller, and the View are kept physically in different folders, and ASP.NET MVC uses naming conventions to…
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What are ViewData, ViewBag, and TempData in ASP.NET MVC?
I have often seen entry level developers struggle with the differences between and usage of ViewData, ViewBag and TempData in ASP.NET MVC. And while there are many articles and blog posts on this topic out there, I’ll try to explain it simply. To start with, ViewData, ViewBag, and TempData all three are objects in ASP.NET…
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How to Enable CORS in the ASP.NET Web API
Have you ever come across the following error: “Cross-origin Request Blocked. The same origin policy disallows reading the resource”. Us to! It turns out, we get this error due to lack of CORS support while sharing resources. When we try to consume the Web API from origin A in a web application residing in origin…
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How to work with the Ignite UI Chart in an AngularJS application
In this post we will learn how to work with the Ignite UI chart in an AngularJS application. Although I will use the ASP.NET Web API to pull data from the database, you can use REST service or a Web API created on any stack with the Ignite UI charts in your AngularJS application. This…
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Creating an ASP.NET Web API using the Entity Framework Code First approach and the Repository pattern
In this article, we will learn how to create an ASP.NET Web API using the Repository pattern and the Entity Framework code first approach. Essentially you’ll learn how to: Create a core project which will contain entity and the repository interface; Create an Infrastructure project which will contain database operations code using the Entity Framework…
Dhananjay Kumar 