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clock April 22, 2014 09:49 by author Scott

In this article, I will write simple tutorial about detail pipeline of ASP.NET MVC.

Routing

Routing is the first step in ASP.NET MVC pipeline. typically, it is a pattern matching system that matches the incoming request to the registered URL patterns in the Route Table.

The UrlRoutingModule(System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingModule) is a class which matches an incoming HTTP request to a registered route pattern in the RouteTable(System.Web.Routing.RouteTable).

When ASP.NET MVC application starts at first time, it registers one or more patterns to the RouteTable to tell the routing system what to do with any requests that match these patterns. An application has only one RouteTable and this is setup in the Application_Start event of Global.asax of the application.

public class RouteConfig
   {
   public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
   {
   routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); 

   routes.MapRoute(
   name: "Default",
   url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
   defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );
   }
   }


protected void Application_Start()
{
   //Other code is removed for clarity
   RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}

When the UrlRoutingModule finds a matching route within RouteCollection (RouteTable.Routes), it retrieves the IRouteHandler(System.Web.Mvc.IRouteHandler) instance(default is System.Web.MvcRouteHandler) for that route. From the route handler, the module gets an IHttpHandler(System.Web.IHttpHandler) instance(default is System.Web.MvcHandler).

public interface IrouteHandler
{
   IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext);
}

Controller Initialization

The MvcHandler initiates the real processing inside ASP.NET MVC pipeline by using ProcessRequest method. This method uses the IControllerFactory instance (default is System.Web.Mvc.DefaultControllerFactory) to create corresponding controller.

protected internal virtual void ProcessRequest(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
   SecurityUtil.ProcessInApplicationTrust(delegate {
   IController controller;
   IControllerFactory factory;
   this.ProcessRequestInit(httpContext, out controller, out factory);
   try
   {
   controller.Execute(this.RequestContext);
   }
   finally
   {
   factory.ReleaseController(controller);
   }
   });
}

Action Execution

1. When the controller is initialized, the controller calls its own InvokeAction() method by passing the details of the chosen action method. This is handled by the IActionInvoker.

public virtual bool InvokeAction(ControllerContext controllerContext, string actionName)

2. After chosen of appropriate action method, model binders(default is System.Web.Mvc.DefaultModelBinder) retrieves the data from incoming HTTP request and do the data type conversion, data validation such as required or date format etc. and also take care of input values mapping to that action method parameters.

3. Authentication Filter was introduced with ASP.NET MVC5 that run prior to authorization filter. It is used to authenticate a user. Authentication filter process user credentials in the request and provide a corresponding principal. Prior to ASP.NET MVC5, you use authorization filter for authentication and authorization to a user.

By default, Authenticate attribute is used to perform Authentication. You can easily create your own custom authentication filter by implementing IAuthenticationFilter.

4. Authorization filter allow you to perform authorization process for an authenticated user. For example, Role based authorization for users to access resources.

By default, Authorize attribute is used to perform authorization. You can also make your own custom authorization filter by implementing IAuthorizationFilter.

5. Action filters are executed before(OnActionExecuting) and after(OnActionExecuted) an action is executed. IActionFilter interface provides you two methods OnActionExecuting and OnActionExecuted methods which will be executed before and after an action gets executed respectively. You can also make your own custom ActionFilters filter by implementing IActionFilter.

6. When action is executed, it process the user inputs with the help of model (Business Model or Data Model) and prepare Action Result.

Result Execution

1. Result filters are executed before(OnResultnExecuting) and after(OnResultExecuted) the ActionResult is executed. IResultFilter interface provides you two methods OnResultExecuting and OnResultExecuted methods which will be executed before and after an ActionResult gets executed respectively. You can also make your own custom ResultFilters filter by implementing IResultFilter.

2. Action Result is prepared by performing operations on user inputs with the help of BAL or DAL. The Action Result type can be ViewResult, PartialViewResult, RedirectToRouteResult, RedirectResult, ContentResult, JsonResult, FileResult and EmptyResult.

3. Various Result type provided by the ASP.NET MVC can be categorized into two category- ViewResult type and NonViewResult type. The Result type which renders and returns an HTML page to the browser, falls into ViewResult category and other result type which returns only data either in text format, binary format or a JSON format, falls into NonViewResult category.

View Initialization and Rendering

1. ViewResult type i.e. view and partial view are represented by IView(System.Web.Mvc.IView) interface and rendered by the appropriate View Engine.

public interface Iview
{
  
void Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer);
}

2. This process is handled by IViewEngine(System.Web.Mvc.IViewEngine) interface of the view engine. By default ASP.NET MVC provides WebForm and Razor view engines. You can also create your custom engine by using IViewEngine interface and can registered your custom view engine in to your Asp.Net MVC application as shown below:

protected void Application_Start()
{
  
//Remove All View Engine including Webform and Razor
   ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
   //Register Your Custom View Engine
   ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new CustomViewEngine());
   //Other code is removed for clarity
}

3. Html Helpers are used to write input fields, create links based on the routes, AJAX-enabled forms, links and much more. Html Helpers are extension methods of the HtmlHelper class and can be further extended very easily. In more complex scenario, it might render a form with client side validation with the help of JavaScript or jQuery.



Free ASP.NET 5 MVC Belgium Hosting - HostForLIFE.eu :: Implementing Validation Mechanism in ASP.NET MVC

clock April 16, 2014 07:17 by author Peter

In this article I will walk you through the steps of implementing validation in the ASP.NET 5 MVC project using jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js

What is Unobtrusive JavaScript?

Unobtrusive JavaScript is the best practices to separate the JavaScript code from presentation or html.

For example
<input type=”button”
id=”btn”
onclick=”alert(‘hello world’)“
/>

The above code is obtrusive as we have called the JavaScript alert method within the html control’s input tag. In order to make this unobtrusive we can create a separate JavaScript file and with the help of jQuery we can register a click event for this button like this.

$(document).ready(function () {
$(‘#btn’).click(function (e) {
    alert(‘hello world’);
}
});

For validation there is a JavaScript named jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js which can automatically attach validation with all the input controls that you have in your html file. But those controls should have data-val attribute to true. Otherwise the validation for that particular control does not applied. By default, when we use these methods in our code, depending on the data annotation attributes we have used in our Model it automatically applies the validation at the time of rendering the html control.

For example. If our model is:

public
class
Person : Message
{
[GridColumn("Id", true)]
public
int Id { set; get; }
[Required]
[GridColumn("Name", false)]
[StringLength(10, ErrorMessage="Length cannot exceed to 10 character")]
public
string Name { set; get; }
}

In ASP.Net MVC we can associate a model while adding a view and in that view we can call HTML helper functions like this
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name)

This will generates an html as follows

<input data-val=”true” data-val-length=”Length cannot exceed to 10 character” data-val-length-max=”10″ data-val-required=”The Name field is required.” id=”Name” name=”Name” type=”text” value=”Ovais” />

1. You can see that depending on the model it has automatically added the data-val-* properties in the html. You have to add a jquery.validation.unobtrusive.js in your project.

2. Then add the file path in the bundle like this:

bundles.Add(new
ScriptBundle(“~/bundles/jqueryval”).Include(
“~/Scripts/jquery.validate*”)); 

3. Then add the script reference in the page as within the script section like this.

@section scripts{
@Scripts.Render(“~/bundles/jqueryval”)

}

4. Make sure you have controls place inside a form.

Handling validation in AJAX calls

When using server side post back in ASP.Net MVC validation works smooth. But for example if you want to invoke some AJAXified request on any button click and wanted to know if the form is validated or not you can add a code like this.

$(‘#Save’).click(function (e) {
var $val = $(this).parents(‘form’);
if (!($val.valid()))
return
false;
else alert(‘form have no errors’);

}



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clock April 11, 2014 08:17 by author Scott

ASP.NET MVC 5.0 Overview

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What're the new features from Asp.net mvc 5.0?

The ASP.NET MVC 5 Framework is the latest update to Microsoft’s popular ASP.NET web platform. It provides an extensible, high-quality programming model that allows you to build dynamic, data-driven websites, focusing on a cleaner architecture and test-driven development.

ASP.NET MVC 5 contains a number of improvements over previous versions, including some new features, improved user experiences; native support for JavaScript libraries to build multi-platform CSS and HTML5 enabled sites and better tooling support.

Below are some of new ASP.NET MVC 5 feature:

  • Scaffolding
  • ASP.NET Identity 
  • One ASP.NET 
  • Bootstrap 
  • Attribute Routing 
  • Filter Overrides

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