Changing the value of HtmlHelpers.ValidationSummaryCssClassName - asp.net-mvc

Yes, it's a bit ass-about-face, but what's the best way to change the css class name output for validation errors, across a project?
The source is available here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/21528#266468

You can't its a readonly value.
You just have to style the elements created with those css names.

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Access process i18n property files before compilation

I have a following situation: in some of my i18n property files there are properties containing a special word:
prop.example=specialword just for example
prop.test=just for test specialword
I want to have a possibility of having a property somewhere in my Config.groovy that would contain a specific value for this specialword so that if I specify:
specialword=Value of special word
in a Config.groovy then I want my i18n properties to be resolved like:
prop.example=Value of special word just for example
prop.test=just for test Value of special word
for that purpose, when building the project, I want to access property files in order to look for occurences of specialword and to replace them with value of specialwordvalue from Config.groovy.
Is that possible somehow? Perhaps, someone faced similar situation? I would really appreciate any help.
Thanks, Cheers
Instead of trying to change the way the properties are compiled, you would be better off passing the special value as an argument to your message code (as discussed in the comments to your question).
For instance:
<g:message code="my.key.code" args="[someVariableWithAValueFromConfig]" />
If your message code doesn't use the argument it will simply be ignored. This seems like the best approach to the problem you are trying to solve.

Add many attributes to my xdatamodel (iOS Core Data)

I've got a list of 2000+, almost the same, 'NSString' attributes I need to "import" in my .xcdatamodel-file.
If I could open the xcdatamodel-file using an XML-like-text-editor, like a .plist-file, I can add all of my attributes, but I can't find a way how.
I managed to programmaticly create the attributes (using this tutorial), but then I can't set or fetch the attribute's data.
The list should look like:
["str_1_1"],["str_1_2"],["str_1_3"],...,["str_49_4"],["str_49_5"],...
Is there a way to programmaticly add attributes / set and fetch data from attributes?
OR
Is there a way to staticly add all possible attributes without clicking the +button over 2000 times?
You can just open the model file in any text editor. If you have the file compatibility for the file set to Xcode 4 or higher, it's even easy to edit.
The model Foo.xcdatamodel is actually a directory. Inside that is a file named contents, which is nicely formatted, easily readable XML. Edit that. A string attribute will look something like:
<attribute name="stringAttribute" optional="YES" attributeType="String" syncable="YES"/>
Add one or two string attributes in Xcode and then duplicate/edit them as needed.
A couple of notes:
Obviously, it's your job to get the syntax right. This is not documented but also not hard to figure out. If you end up with a broken model file that won't compile, you got something wrong.
It's probably a good idea to quit Xcode first. It might not freak out if you edit the model file while it's running, but you never know.
Having 2000+ string attributes is frankly terrifying and suggests an extremely bad data model. Before editing the model and adding all of these, please carefully consider whether there's a less extreme solution.

Overriding JSF's default I18N handling

Like the asker of the question here
Variable substitution JSF Resource Bundle property file
I'm slightly aghast at the inability to reference the value of other property keys in the message bundle.
Although I see how easy to write my own rubbish handler[0] that can do what I want in a custom component, that would leave expressions in templates calling the message bundle still using the default JSF implementation.
Is it possible to override the default JSF handling of the message bundle?
[0] Or better, to use code referenced in one of the answers to the above question
https://code.google.com/p/reflectiveresourcebundle/
You can provide the fully qualified name of a concrete ResourceBundle implementation as "base name" instead of alone the path and filename of the properties files.
E.g.
public class YourCustomResourceBundle extends ResourceBundle {
// ...
}
which can be registered as follows
<application>
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>com.example.YourCustomResourceBundle</base-name>
<var>text</var>
</resource-bundle>
</application>
or declared on a per-view/template basis as follows
<f:loadBundle baseName="com.example.YourCustomResourceBundle" var="text" />
Here are several related questions/answers which contain some concrete code which you could use as a kickoff example:
How to remove the surrounding ??? when message is not found in bundle
internationalization in JSF with ResourceBundle entries which are loaded from database
i18n with UTF-8 encoded properties files in JSF 2.0 appliaction
Everything is possible for those who try. The question is not whether it is is possible but should you do it. And the answer to that question is: probably not.
Referencing other message in a message bundle means you want to build a compound message. So you can re-use part of the message many times just to save small fraction of the disk space or small fraction of development time.
If that is the case, I have a message for you. What you plan to do is called a concatenation and it is the second most common I18n defect. And its implications are as bad as those of hardcoded strings.
Why? Because target languages do not follow the English grammar rules. First, it is common need to re-order the sentence while translating. This might be easy to fix by using (numbered or named) placeholders. On the other hand though, the translation might differ depending on the context. That is, it might need to be translated in totally other way, or simply the word endings might need to be different depending on a grammar case, mood or gender.
My advice is, do not use such shortcuts, it will create more problems than it fixes.
Now you should know why "those stupid Romans" didn't implement it like this: it is against I18n best practices.

Set [Embed] attribute value dynamically

I am new to Action script.
Is there any possibility to set the source attribute value dynamically at run time?
for e.g
in the code
Embed(source="assets/images/image.pdf",mimeType="application/octet-stream");
I need to set
source="set pdf file name using a variable or reading from config xml"
Please provide some example snippets or links for reference
Thanks in advance.
Thanks
SRR
Maybe Conditional Compilation will get you some way to achieving what you want.

Can I use url parameters in LESS css?

Intro:
I'm trying out LESS in an asp.net mvc environment.
I use dotless for server side processing (and I wouldn't want to use client side processing especially afer publishing the complete project).
I have to apply a design where there are different color schemes depending on different things (e.g. time of the day).
Less felt very powerful in this case as designing a parameterized css and only changing like 10 variables at the beginning of the file for every theme was really uplifting.
Problem:
But I would need to somehow change the color themes from an outside parameter.
Ideas:
First I thought that an URL parameter like style.less?theme=fuschia would be good, but I found no way to parse something like this.
Then I thought that making a very short blue.less, green.less, orange.less consisting only declared color variables, and including the main.less in every one of them would be a solid solution.
I had no chance to try out the second solution, but I thought this would be a good time to ask for advice on the most robust way of doing this.
The problem again is: I want to control some things in my less file from the outside.
Yes you can (because I implemented that feature for exactly that reason).
Dotless supports parameters from the outside via the querystring parameter.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.less?foo=bar" />
Will let you use the following less:
#foo = bar;
The parameter injection code is very simple. it just prepends the variable declarations to your normal less file, so anything that comes as a querystring parameter will follow the above syntax.
The code in question is very simple: https://github.com/dotless/dotless/blob/master/src/dotless.Core/Engine/ParameterDecorator.cs
AFAIK, you cannot pass parameters for dotnetless to use to do the compile.
As a suggestion, why not just call different less files? This would be fairly easy to do by using a Viewbag property.
To make the different less ones, You first create a less file with each set of colors in them. Then you import your base css file. dotnetless will merge the color definations in the parent file with the usages in the base file. So you have something like -
#baseGray: #ddd;
#baseGrayDark: darken(#baseGray, 15%);
#baseGrayLight: lighten(#baseGray, 10%);
#import "baseCss.less";
I just tested this on and MVC3 project and it works.

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