I'm simply getting to grips with MVC linq etc and came across what sounds like a standard stumbling block. All the tutorials are either Code first examples or they create the information from scratch within the App_Data directory. All well and smart for a tutorial that require to be simply moveable to the readers computer, however not very useful when putting in a full scale MVC application. My first problem was my lack of knowledge of Linq to SQL. Finally, how to add an external SQL database to your MVC project:

• Right click on "Models" folder, choose "Add New Item"
• Add a "Link to SQL Classes" item
• Open your "Server Explorer" pane (if you cant see it attempt "View" on the menu bar and "Server Explorer"
• Right click on "Data Connections" and choose "Add Connection"
• Follow the instructions.
• almost there....
• Expand your newly added database to look at the tables.
• Drag the tables you wish over to the main pane of the "Link to SQL Classes" item you added at the start.
• Hey presto, you have a database context you'll run Linq queries against.

Please bear in mind you will need to use the "Models" namespace to reference you database context objects.
And now back to highly sophisticated programming!

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In this tutorial, we will discuss about how you can increase the performance of website using ASP.NET MVC.

1. Remove Unused view engines

protected void Application_Start()
{
    ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
    ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new RazorViewEngine());
}

2. Deploying Production Code in Release Mode

Make sure your production application always runs in release mode in the web.config
<compilation debug=”false”></compilation>

<configuration> <system.web> <deployment retail=”true”></deployment> </system.web> </configuration>

3. Use OutputCacheAttribute When Appropriate

MVC will not do any View Look-up Caching if you are running your application in Debug Mode

[OutputCache(VaryByParam = "none", Duration = 3600)]
public ActionResult Categories()
{
    return View(new Categories());
}

4. Use HTTP Compression

Add gzip (HTTP compression) and static cache (images, css, …) in your web.config:

<system.webserver><urlcompression dodynamiccompression=”true” dostaticcompression=”true” dynamiccompressionbeforecache=”true”></urlcompression>
</system.webserver>

5. Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header

<configuration><system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<clientCache cacheControlMode=”UseExpires”
httpExpires=”Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT” />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

6. Uncontrolled Actions

protected override void HandleUnknownAction(string actionName)
{
       RedirectToAction("Index").ExecuteResult(this.ControllerContext);
}

7. Other Ways

• Avoid passing null models to views
• Remove unused HTTP Modules
• Put repetitive code inside your PartialViews
• Put Stylesheets at the Top
• Put Scripts at the Bottom
• Make JavaScript and CSS External
• Minify JavaScript and CSS
• Remove Duplicate Scripts
• No 404s
• Avoid Empty Image src
• Use a Content Delivery Network
• Use either Microsoft, Google CDN for referencing the Javascript or Css libraries
• Use GET for AJAX Requests
• Optimize Images

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I have been operating with ASP.NET MVC for some time and yet I still had trouble making an attempt to get a URL in a view. URL generation is particularly important for ASP.NET MVC as a result of it uses a routing engine to map URLs to code. If we hard code a URL then we lose the ability to later vary our routing scheme. I have found 2 ways that currently (ASP.NET MVC preview 2) work to generate URLs in a view. the first uses the GetVirtualPath method and seems overly complicated - thus I wrapped it in a global helper:

public static string GenerateUrl(HttpContext context, RouteValueDictionary routeValues)
    {
        return RouteTable.Routes.GetVirtualPath(
            new RequestContext(new HttpContextWrapper2(context), new RouteData()),
            routeValues).ToString();
    }

But then I found that I could achieve a similar result additional simply using UrlHelper, accessible via the URL property of the view.
// link to a controller
Url.Action("Home");

// link to an action
Url.Action("Home", "Index");

// link to an action and send parameters
Url.Action("Edit", "Product", new RouteValueDictionary(new { id = p.Id }));

Or, if you want the url for a hyperlink you can get that in one step using the ActionLink method on the Html property:
Html.ActionLink<HomeController>(c => c.Index(),"Home")

So I no longer see a need for my GenerateUrl method and have removed it from my helper. All of this would be much easier if there was some documentation. Im sure there is a better way so if you can think of an improvement please leave it in the comments.

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Sometimes, the controller actions can trigger a long running background process. For example, when the user clicks a link in the page, a word document is generated in the background, and the properties of the word document is shown in the subsequent page. Generation of word documents can take anywhere between 3 seconds to 30 seconds. During this time, the user needs some feedback about the progress of the operation. This post shows how you can provide progress information to the page which triggered the long running background process.

Step 1

Consider a MVC application with two pages: Index.cshtml and Generate.cshtml. The Index.cshtml has a link - Generate. When the user clicks the link, the Generate page is shown. The Generate action is a long running operation that happens in the background. To execute long running operations from a MVC controller, we derive the controller from AsyncController. The following code snippet shows the HomeController with the background operations:

public class HomeController : AsyncController
{
    //
    // GET: /Home/

    private BackgroundWorker worker = default(BackgroundWorker);
    private static int progress = default(int);

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public void GenerateAsync()
    {
        worker = new BackgroundWorker();
        worker.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
        worker.DoWork += worker_DoWork;
        worker.ProgressChanged += worker_ProgressChanged;
        AsyncManager.OutstandingOperations.Increment();
        worker.RunWorkerAsync();
    }

    void worker_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        progress = e.ProgressPercentage;
    }

    void worker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(300);
            worker.ReportProgress(i+1);
        }

        AsyncManager.OutstandingOperations.Decrement();
    }

    public ActionResult GenerateCompleted()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult GetProgress()
    {
        return this.Json(progress, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }
}

The three main action methods in the above controller are - Index(), GenerateAsync(), GetProgress(). Index() displays the Index page. GenerateAsync() triggers the background operation. The background operation loops 100 times and sleeps for 300 ms in each iteration. At the end of each iteration, it reports progress as a percentage.

Step 2

The GetProgress() action gets the reported progress which is stored as a static variable. The GetProgress() is triggered when the user clicks the link. The javascript in the Index page shows how the GetProgress() action method is called:

$(document).ready(
    function () {
        $("#genLink").click(
            function (e) {
                setInterval(
                    function () {
                        $.get("/Home/GetProgress",
                            function (data) {
                                $("#progress").text(data);
                        });
                    }, 1000);
            });
    });

Here's the HTML

<body>
    <h1>Progress</h1>
    <h2 id="progress"></h2>
    <div>
        @Html.ActionLink("Generate", "Generate", null,
            new { id = "genLink" })
    </div>
</body>

On clicking the link, you have caledl the setInterval() function that is triggered every second. In the recurring function, we call the action method - GetProgress(). You have displayed the progress data in the page in the progress tag.

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Now, we will discussed about Moving Your Data From ListBox to other ListBox with JQuery in ASP.NET MVC. A list box is a graphical control element that allows the user to select one or more items from a list contained within a static, multiple line text box. First step, write the following code:
namespace Mvc2.Controllers
{
public class MovieController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult MoveDateinListBox()
  {
      return View();
  }
  }
}

In View
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">
MoveDateinListBox
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
<h5>
    MVC:How to Move data between two ListBoxes using JQuery</h5>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        $("#MoveToRight,#MoveToLeft").click(function (event) {
            var id = $(event.target).attr("id");
            var selectFrom = id == "MoveToRight" ? "#SelectLeftItem" : "#SelectRightItem";
            var moveTo = id == "MoveToRight" ? "#SelectRightItem" : "#SelectLeftItem";
            var selectedItems = $(selectFrom + " option:selected").toArray();
            $(moveTo).append(selectedItems);
            selectedItems.remove;
        });
    });
</script>
<form method="get" action="" runat="server">
 <select id="SelectLeftItem" multiple="multiple" style="height: 100px">
    <option value="1">ASP.NET</option>
    <option value="2">C#.NET</option>
    <option value="3">SQL Server</option>
    <option value="4">VB.NET</option>
</select>
<input id="MoveToRight" type="button" value=" >> " style="font-weight: bold" />
<input id="MoveToLeft" type="button" value=" << " style="font-weight: bold" />
<select id="SelectRightItem" multiple="multiple" style="height: 100px">
    <option value="1">MVC</option>
    <option value="2">WCF</option>
    <option value="3">WPF</option>
    <option value="4">Silverlight</option>
</select>
</form>
</asp:Content>

And here is the output:

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Sometimes, we need to clear the thumbnails from dropzone.js after the file is uploaded. In this article, I will tell you how to do it.

You need to call addedfile function once the file is uploaded. After that, you have to to generate remove button for the thumbnail.

Look at this example code:

Step 1: File Upload response from the server

Dropzone.options.dropzoneForm = {
maxFiles: 2,
init: function () {
this.on("maxfilesexceeded", function (data) {
var res = eval('(' + data.xhr.responseText + ')');

});
this.on("addedfile", function (file) {

Step 2: Create the remove/clear button

var removeButton = Dropzone.createElement("
<button>Remove file</button>
");

Step 3: Capturing the Dropzone.js instance as closure

var _this = this;

Step 4: Listen to the click event

removeButton.addEventListener("click", function (e) {

Make sure the button click doesn't submit the form:

e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();

Step 5: Remove the file preview

_this.removeFile(file);

If you want to the delete the file on the server as well, you can do the AJAX request here:

});

Step 6: Add the button to the file preview element

file.previewElement.appendChild(removeButton);
});
}
};

That's it! Simple right?

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In this tutorial, let me explain you how to use Dapper.NET ORM in ASP.NET MVC 6. Dapper is a simple object mapper for .NET. Dapper is a file you can drop in to your project that will extend your IDbConnection interface. A key feature of dapper is performance. the subsequent metrics show how long it takes to execute five hundred select statements against a db and map the data returned to objects.

Now,  Install dapper using Nuget Package Manager
PM> Install-Package Dapper

After that, Create a project in ASP.NET MVC and then Add a folder named Dapper inside it as you can see on the following picture:

Next step: Create User and Address classes
public class Address
{
public int AddressID { get; set; }
public int UserID { get; set; }
public string AddressType { get; set; }
public string StreetAddress { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
public string State { get; set; }
public string ZipCode { get; set; }
}

public class User
{
public User()
{
this.Address = new List<Address>();
}

public int UserID { get; set; }

public string FirstName { get; set; }

public string LastName { get; set; }

public string Email { get; set; }

public List<Address> Address { get; set; }
}

Now Create IUserRepository.cs interface  and UserRepository.cs classes for data access.
public interface IUserRepository
{
List < User > GetAll();
User Find(int id);
User Add(User user);
User Update(User user);
void Remove(int id);
User GetUserInformatiom(int id);
}
public class UserRepository : IUserRepository
{
private IDbConnection _db = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString);
public List<User> GetAll()
{
return this._db.Query<User>("SELECT * FROM Users").ToList();
}

public User Find(int id)
{
return this._db.Query<User>("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserID = @UserID", new { id }).SingleOrDefault();
}

public User Add(User user)
{
var sqlQuery = "INSERT INTO Users (FirstName, LastName, Email) VALUES(@FirstName, @LastName, @Email); " + "SELECT CAST(SCOPE_IDENTITY() as int)";
var userId = this._db.Query<int>(sqlQuery, user).Single();
user.UserID = userId;
return user;
}
public User Update(User user)
{
var sqlQuery =
    "UPDATE Users " +
    "SET FirstName = @FirstName, " +
    "    LastName  = @LastName, " +
    "    Email     = @Email " +
    "WHERE UserID = @UserID";
this._db.Execute(sqlQuery, user);
return user;
}

public void Remove(int id)
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}

public User GetUserInformatiom(int id)
{
using (var multipleResults = this._db.QueryMultiple("GetUserByID", new { Id = id }, commandType: CommandType.StoredProcedure))
{
    var user = multipleResults.Read<User>().SingleOrDefault();

    var addresses = multipleResults.Read<Address>().ToList();
    if (user != null && addresses != null)
    {
        user.Address.AddRange(addresses);
    }

    return user;
}
}
}

Now use the above repository in the HomeController.cs
Create an instance for UserRepository class
private IUserRepository _repository = new UserRepository();

For Get All User write the following code:
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View(_repository.GetAll());
}

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications. XSS enables attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise trusted web sites. In this article, I will show you how to avoid XSS while allowing only the HTML that you want to accept. In example, only <b> and <u> tags.

Firstly, let's filter the user input, and accept only <b></b> and <u></u> tags.

Step 1: Disables input validation

Step 2: Encodes all the input that is coming from the user

Step 3: Replace the encoded html with the HTML elements that you want to allow

Here is the full code snippet:

[HttpPost]
// Input validation is disabled, so the users can submit HTML
[ValidateInput(false)]
public ActionResult Create(Comment comment)
{
    StringBuilder sbComments = new StringBuilder();
   
    // Encode the text that is coming from comments textbox
    sbComments.Append(HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(comment.Comments));
   
    // Only decode bold and underline tags
    sbComments.Replace("&lt;b&gt;", "<b>");
    sbComments.Replace("&lt;/b&gt;", "</b>");
    sbComments.Replace("&lt;u&gt;", "<u>");
    sbComments.Replace("&lt;/u&gt;", "</u>");
    comment.Comments = sbComments.ToString();

    // HTML encode the text that is coming from name textbox
    string strEncodedName = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(comment.Name);
    comment.Name = strEncodedName;

    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        db.Comments.AddObject(comment);
        db.SaveChanges();
        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

    return View(comment);
}

This is just one example. Only filtering the user input can't guarantee XSS elimination. XSS can happen in different ways and forms.

Hope you did it!

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In this article, you will learn how use different actions to show a single view in ASP.NET MVC.  It’s common situation in project development where you don’t want to create view for each and every action of certain controller. In this situation, we have to use concept of shared view. The solution is very simple, you just have to keep the view in shared folder. Like below:

Now, The question is why need to keep in shared folder? The reason is when you run any controller, by default it check its own directory or shared directory. Every controller will look in shared directory, if it not available in it’s own directory. Let’s have a look on below code, let's create very simple controller class:

sing System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
 
namespace MVC3.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        //
        // GET: /Home/
        public ActionResult Action1()
        {
          
            ViewBag.Controller = "Action1";
            return View("_Common");
        }
        public ActionResult Action2()
        {
          
            ViewBag.Controller = "Action2";
            return View("_Common");
        }
 
    }

Both Action1() and Action2() is calling _Common view and as the view is placed in shared folder, both can able to access. Before calling to view we are assigning action name in ViewBag. From view we can detect which action has invoked it. Here is code for view:

<%@ Page
Language="C#"
Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<MVC3.Models.customer>"
%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head runat="server">
    <title>_Common</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        <% var ActionName = ViewBag.ActionName; %>
        <% if (ActionName == "Action1")
           {%>
          
              This view is called from Action 1
           <%}
           else
           {%>
          
              This view is Called from Action 2
           <%} %>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
 
Here is the output:

Now, the other question my show “Is it possible to call one view from different controller”? Yes, you can call. In below example, you will see how to do that.

You can call one view from different controller. This is your first controller Home1:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
 
namespace MVC3.Controllers
{
    public class Home1Controller : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Action()
        {
          
            ViewBag.Controller = "Home1";
            return View("_Common");
        }
    }
}

And here is the output.

And for the Home2 controller:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
 
namespace MVC3.Controllers
{
    public class Home2Controller : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Action()
        {
          
            ViewBag.Controller = "Home2";
            return View("_Common");
        }
 
    }
}

Here is the output:

It’s clear that both Action() (they are in different controller) are calling same view.

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In this post, you will learn how to display real time updates from the SQL Server by using SignalR and SQL Dependency in ASP.NET MVC.

The following are the steps that we need to enable in the SQL Server first.

Step 1- Enable Service Broker on the database

The following is the query that need to enable the service broker

ALTER DATABASE BlogDemos SET ENABLE_BROKER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE ;

Step 2 - Add Connection string to the Web.Config file

<add name=”DefaultConnection” connectionString=”Server=servername;Database=databasename;User Id=userid;Password=password;” providerName=”System.Data.SqlClient” />
 

Step 3 - Enable SQL Dependency

In Global.asax start the SQL Dependency in App_Start() event and Stop SQL dependency in the Application_End() event

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString;

        protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
            FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
            BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
            GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
            //Start SqlDependency with application initialization
            SqlDependency.Start(connString);
        }

        protected void Application_End()
        {
            //Stop SQL dependency
            SqlDependency.Stop(connString);
        }
    }

Step 4 - Install SignalR from the nuget

Run the following command in the Package Manager Console:

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR

Step 5 - Create SignalR Hub Class

Create MessagesHub class in the Hubs folder:

public class MessagesHub : Hub
    {
        private static string conString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ToString();
        public void Hello()
        {
            Clients.All.hello();
        }

        [HubMethodName("sendMessages")]
        public static void SendMessages()
        {
            IHubContext context = GlobalHost.ConnectionManager.GetHubContext<MessagesHub>();
            context.Clients.All.updateMessages();
        }  
    }

Step 6 - Get the  Data from the Repository

Create MessagesRepository to get the messages from the database when data is updated.

public class MessagesRepository
    {
        readonly string _connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString;

        public IEnumerable<Messages> GetAllMessages()
        {
            var messages = new List<Messages>();
            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(_connString))
            {
                connection.Open();
                using (var command = new SqlCommand(@"SELECT [MessageID], [Message], [EmptyMessage], [Date] FROM [dbo].[Messages]", connection))
                {
                    command.Notification = null;

                    var dependency = new SqlDependency(command);
                    dependency.OnChange += new OnChangeEventHandler(dependency_OnChange);

                    if (connection.State == ConnectionState.Closed)
                        connection.Open();

                    var reader = command.ExecuteReader();

                    while (reader.Read())
                    {
                        messages.Add(item: new Messages { MessageID = (int)reader["MessageID"], Message = (string)reader["Message"], EmptyMessage =  reader["EmptyMessage"] != DBNull.Value ? (string) reader["EmptyMessage"] : "", MessageDate = Convert.ToDateTime(reader["Date"]) });
                    }
                }
             
            }
            return messages;
          
           
        }

        private void dependency_OnChange(object sender, SqlNotificationEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Type == SqlNotificationType.Change)
            {
                MessagesHub.SendMessages();
            }
        }
    }

Step 7 - Register SignalR at startup class

Add the following code:

app.MapSignalR();

Step 8 - View Page

Create div messagesTable that will append the table data from the database:

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-12">
       <div id="messagesTable"></div>
    </div>
</div>

Now Add the SignalR related scripts in the page:

<script src="/Scripts/jquery.signalR-2.1.1.js"></script>
 <!--Reference the autogenerated SignalR hub script. -->
    <script src="/signalr/hubs"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        // Declare a proxy to reference the hub.
        var notifications = $.connection.messagesHub;
      
        //debugger;
        // Create a function that the hub can call to broadcast messages.
        notifications.client.updateMessages = function () {
            getAllMessages()
          
        };
        // Start the connection.
        $.connection.hub.start().done(function () {
            alert("connection started")
            getAllMessages();
        }).fail(function (e) {
            alert(e);
        });
    });


    function getAllMessages()
    {
        var tbl = $('#messagesTable');
        $.ajax({
            url: '/home/GetMessages',
            contentType: 'application/html ; charset:utf-8',
            type: 'GET',
            dataType: 'html'
        }).success(function (result) {
            tbl.empty().append(result);
        }).error(function () {
           
        });
    }
</script>

Step 9 - Create Partial View Page

Create a partial view _MessagesList.cshtml that returns all the messages.

@model IEnumerable<SignalRDbUpdates.Models.Messages>

<p>
    @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create")
</p>
<table class="table">
    <tr>
        <th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.MessageID)</th>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.Message)
        </th>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.EmptyMessage)
        </th>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.MessageDate)
        </th>
       
    </tr>

@foreach (var item in Model) {
    <tr>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.MessageID)
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Message)
        </td>
        <th>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.EmptyMessage)
        </th>
        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.MessageDate)
        </td>
       
    </tr>
}
</table>

Step 10 - Set Up the Database

Create the database called blogdemos and run the following script:

USE [BlogDemos]
GO

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[Messages]    Script Date: 10/16/2014 12:43:55 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Messages](
    [MessageID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [Message] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
    [EmptyMessage] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
    [Date] [datetime] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Messages] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [MessageID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Messages] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_Messages_Date]  DEFAULT (getdate()) FOR [Date]
GO

Step 11 - Run the project

Whenever data is inserted into the table the dependency_OnChange method will fire.

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