I would like to download ASP.NET MVC web site template. Please guide me where can i find and how i can use. I'm new to this pattern. Thanks in advance.
You can try starting at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd410597.aspx
it already starts with a little code and design to show you the basics then walks you through a few more things like how controllers work, how a model can be used to simplify dealing with posted values and common content etc.
Here you go!
http://mvccontribgallery.codeplex.com/ - design templates
http://www.asp.net/mvc - look # the sample application section (open source, good tutorials included)
Guys from http://pixelsinspired.com are starting something you may be interested in. There is only one template, but it is free and looks great.
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Its my first time with asp.net MVC 2. Im came from asp.net webforms.
I would like to know how to build a form to add products (for instance) to a database with client and server validation.
Do you have any url useful that explains this?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
Josema.
Try looking through Jon Galloway's MVC Music Store, it's a demo application that might help you. Otherwise the MVC2 articles on Scott Guthrie's Blog will also give you the basics.
This is a very broad question. There are many tutorials out there on how to perform this. For example as far as validation is concerned you might look at DataAnnotations which allow you to annotate your view models with attributes which will be used to perform server side and client side validation (if you enable it). For more advanced scenarios you could also take a look at FluentValidation.
I was just curious if any Spark T4 templates already exist that match/are similar to the out of the box web forms view templates (create, edit, details, etc...). My Google skills didn't lead me to any results.
I've translated the mvc2 templates to spark, feel free to copy:
http://guiftp.free.fr/SparkViewTemplates.rar
T4MVC should work fine with Spark. Here is a related forum thread. That being said, I'm not clear from your initial post that T4MVC is the kind of thing you're looking for.
I meant this part of comment ! if it helps...
# re: T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action
#spark_guy: I haven't played extensively with the Spark view engine, but I think that T4MVC should work with it just as well as it works with the aspx view engine. If you hit specific issues, please let me know.
YOu can find all the T4MVC posts at http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/tags/T4MVC/, though ideally there would be a single posts that describes it all in one place (I'll try to do this). Note that if you download T4MVC, the readme has good 'getting started' info that tells you what it's all about.
I need to know how to use the asp.net mvc? i am new to this technology and i decided to use it and i have downloaded MVC release 1.0 so i need to know the steps needed fro setup the framework as after setting up the framework do i need to do any configurations in VS? i need a tutorial for creating mvc project and an example with code for accessing database through mvc. and which version or release of mvc u advice me to use release 1 or 2 ?
And with respect to posting back i knew that mvc don't do post back like web forms instead it call controller so is this means that each view (.asox file) don't have a related .cs file or the .cs file is shared with many .aspx files ?
I know that my question is not clear but i got confused from articles about mvc when i ask any question or seatch about mvc many articles without practical example or direct answer to my questions in my mind
Thanks in advance
Asp.net have some good basic tutorials here http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/ and here http://www.asp.net/mvc/learn/. Hope they help you.
you dont need to do any configuration in VS at all. after you installed ASP.NET MVC you got a new project type called ASP.NET MVC Web Application thats where your journey begins :)
a good place to start would be this little sample app http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/#MVC_SampleApp
after this you should understand the basic concept of how ASP.NET MVC works
You could start out reading ScottGu's "Nerddinner" tutorial. It was originally published as part of the book titled "Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0", but has later been released freely on his blog. I believe the tutorial covers all the basics needed to get up and running.
If you feel you need more insight, I would suggest you look to Steven Sanderson's "Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework", rather than the aforementioned book. Sanderson's book seems to cover more detail on how stuff work, and he does a great job trying to promote best practices.
Pick up a good book, e.g.- http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/03/10/free-asp-net-mvc-ebook-tutorial.aspx, or go to http://www.asp.net for tutorials.
What are the new features you would like to avail in ASP.NET MVC in the future releases?
I Would say
1) A separate view engine for ASP.NET MVC instead of current WebForm view engine.
2) Asynchronous Controller Actions.
3) Subcontrollers / Partial Requests.
yeah finding good documentation is the hurting factor at the moment. I keep finding solutions which worked 2 months ago (Not helpful with current beta version)
But hey i'm really loving the push it has given me to embrace jquery and ajax.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to render a partial view inside of the controller - not having any luck either!
Stop dropping new code - start dropping better documentation. :) Oh and prescriptive guidance that uses EF rather than LINQ to SQL would also be welcome.
I would agree that better documentation would be great! I'm figuring everything out through trial and error, but I would like some guidance around how certain things should be done.
Subcontrollers would also be high on my list.
I actually hope they don't add too much more. Having control over my HTML and the ability to use jQuery without all of the "Control.ClientID" and ViewState mess is nice, I'd hate to see them mess it up by adding too many features.
good documentation .. better support for server components ..
Proper caching of subcontrollers / partial views.
What would be best practice to localize your ASP.NET MVC application?
I would like to cover two situations:
one application deployment in IIS which would handle multiple languages
one language/application deployment.
In first situation should you go with some kind of view based thing like, ~/View/EN, ~/View/FI, ~/View/SWE or something different?
What about second case, just application based config via Web.config and point these different languages to different URLs?
You can also take a look here ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide and ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With Localization these entires will help you if you working with ASP.NET MVC 2.
You would localize your ASP.NET MVC application very much in the same way you would a classic ASP.NET Web Form application.
You wouldn't use different pages/views for each language, but each page would support multiple languages using satellite assemblies.
You can look at Matt Hawley's blog entry for more explanation and examples.
Unfortunately, Matt Hawley's original code doesn't work in the release version of ASP.NET MVC. Check out an updated post: http://blog.eworldui.net/post/2008/10/ASPNET-MVC-Localization-via-View-Engines.aspx
In general, the localization process isn't as smooth in the VS 2008 / ASP.NET MVC world as it is with traditional web forms. http://www.guysmithferrier.com/post/2009/05/Localizing-ASPNET-MVC.aspx
Have a look at Rob Connery's MvcStore project. He does a screencast showing one way to solve the globalization problem.
http://wekeroad.com/2008/04/24/mvcstore-part-5
I've never been convinced of handling localization within a form as Elijah suggests - the different lengths and directions can lead to very complex or vary naff looking forms.
I'm only just starting with MVC but taking the decoupling method you would wan to use the same controller regardless of the language (treating language just as a view) - this would then give you /Controller/Action/language/form
There is good tutorial with recent update on How to localize asp.net mvc application covering all aspects including DisplayName localization, Validation, using Routing (storing culture name in URL), issues with output cache and so on... Alex Adamyan Blog - While my keyboard gently weeps
We actually went a complete different with overriding the
DataAnnotationsMetadaDataProvider.
In there you can make sure that the DisplayNameAttribute values are resolved into the correct language.
Actually you could even get rid of that attribute and resolve by field names only if that would be any help.
I wrote this article a while ago. It uses a custom view engine.
http://blog.oimae.com/2011/02/20/cultured-view-engine-for-mvc/
And another tutorial for different solution
Tutorial: Create ASP.NET MVC localization with language detection