ASP.NET MVC Starter

Reviewed: MVC Starter Site 0.5 (Jan 18, 2012)

sp4ceman — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:30:20 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - brilliant, rob conery is my hero

Edited Issue: Targeting Framework 4.0 and MVC 3 [24]

mvcvm — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:13:47 GMT

This should fix it if you are having issues:

In web.config,
under system.web/compilation/assemblies, update all the assemblies from Version=3.5.0.0 to Version=4.0.0.0
The <compilation> element should also say targetFramework="4.0"

under runtime/assemblyBinding/dependentAssembly/ look for element <assemblyIdentity> having attribute name="System.Web.Mvc". Change newVersion="2.0.0.0" to newVersion="3.0.0.0" in the corresponding <bindingRedirect> element.

Edit:
Further to this, in order to get model binding to work correctly in User Index and Create views, the web.config in the view folder should also be updated. The assembly refered to by system.web/pages/controls should be updated to version 3.0.0.0.

I have attached a zip containing the two web.config files here.

Edited Issue: Targeting Framework 4.0 and MVC 3 [24]

mvcvm — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:46:12 GMT

Created Issue: Targeting Framework 4.0 and MVC 3 [24]

mvcvm — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:45:17 GMT

Reviewed: MVC Starter Site 0.5 (Jan 03, 2011)

dancoppock — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:50:26 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - This is great MVC starter site and the Tekpub videos are awesome! I've had a go at updating the solution to MVC3 (using the Razor view engine), available at https://github.com/dancoppock/MVC3-Starter-Site, hopefully that will be useful.

Created Issue: Problem related to SiteLinqToSql.dbml [23]

justSteve — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:14:04 GMT

The problem can perhaps be a result of my lack of experience with VS & IIS - there may be dependencies or assumed 'things that are present' that my Win7 w/IIS7 box is missing. But since Rob made a point of 'How to include dependent files' so seems worth the asking. Upon opening Project.sln i'm presented 4 warnings - the one related to SiteLinqToSql.dbml is:

Warning 1 A custom tool 'MSLinqToSQLGenerator' is associated with file 'Model\SiteLinqToSql.dbml', but the output of the custom tool was not found in the project.

The program will compile and render the index page. However...if i follow the directions - 're-running the custom tool by right-clicking on the file in the Solution Explorer and choosing Run Custom Tool.' - the tool will run without error; that warning line is removed from the error list. However, upon compile i'm tossed 21 errors all pointing to SiteLinqToSql.dbml.

wanna see them or is there something other preparation i should be taking prior to running the project?

thx much

Created Issue: Bug in FlashHelper, HtmlEncode the message [22]

pedropaf — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:38:07 GMT

In the FlashHelper class, the script generated by the Flash() function can break easily if the message is not HTML encoded.

This should fix the problem: sb.AppendFormat("$('#flash').html('{0}');", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(message));

By the way, thanks so much for this kit, it's great.
Pedro

Reviewed: MVC Starter Site 0.5 (Sep 14, 2010)

paxer — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:57:43 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - This is absolutely awesome! Thanks Rob !

Commented Issue: Medium Trust issues [16]

msony — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:33:50 GMT

I'd like to begin by thanking you for the starter site. It encompasses some great ideas and has great code. However, many developers, myself included, build sites for clients that need to be hosted with ISP's who host them under medium trust. So its a wise idea to enter this line in web.config during development
<system.web>
<trust level="Medium"/>

This ensures the site will function correctly in a medium trust environment without having to wait until you move it to the ISP. Quite often things work great on our dev box, but then a lot of security exceptions begin to show up when a site is moved to a medium trust environment. I noticed this with the starter kit. When I added the above line, I started to run into issues immediately. My first one is with Ninject. I got the dreaded security exception. However, I was able to fix it with a slight code modification in global.asax.cs: Just add a line for settings and slightly alter the creation of the kernel.

public static IKernel Container {
get {
if (_container == null) {
// add below line and ninject will work in medium trust
var options = new NinjectSettings { UseReflectionBasedInjection = true };
_container = new StandardKernel(options,new SiteModule());
}
return _container;
}
}

This solved the Ninject issue nicely. However, I cannot get NJog to work in medium trust so was wondering if anyone knows of a good .net logger that will work in medium trust. This is as far as I've gotten with this post. It would be great if others would jump in with the goal of creating a version of the starter kit that will work out of the box in a medium trust environment.

Many Thanks,

Ed

Comments: i have the same issue only when i in release mode with debug works for me :(

Commented Issue: PagedList - Skip without Sort is LinqToSQL specific [21]

hawaii — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:18:25 GMT

EF4 throws a fit when calling source.Skip().* without OrderBy, and because it's not strongly typed, it's difficult to choose a specific property to sort by!

This is godawful but "works":

var list = from i in source
select i;

var resultsList = list
.Skip(index * pageSize)
.Take(pageSize)
.ToList();

this.AddRange(resultsList);
Comments: there is a way to work around this: change : this.AddRange(source.Skip(index * pageSize).Take(pageSize).ToList()); to: this.AddRange(source.AsEnumerable().Skip(index * pageSize).Take(pageSize).ToList());

Created Issue: PagedList - Skip without Sort is LinqToSQL specific [21]

GeorgeR — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:49:40 GMT

Created Issue: RegisterAllControllersIn() obsolete [20]

GeorgeR — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:42:42 GMT

..in MVC2, so sayeth the Ninject extension docs.

http://github.com/ninject/ninject.web.mvc

Created Issue: Session property conflicts with HttpSessionState [19]

GeorgeR — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:40:09 GMT

When referred to in either a Controller or the Global.asax.cs, a property named Session will conflict with HttpApplication.Session (type HttpSessionState). This is in .NET 4, MVC2.

Commented Issue: AddView/Edit.tt code template not generating the properties as editable fields in Edit view. [18]

sp4ceman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:11:28 GMT

If i create an edit view, it generates a blank fieldset with a legend and a submit button, the actual fields from the object are not present.
I have tested this with a normal view and a partial view in vs2010.

Comments: also, another small minor fix on the edit.tt template, at around line 114 directly underneath the Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index") are 3 div closing tags. remove one, there are only 2 divs to close.

Commented Issue: AddView/Edit.tt code template not generating the properties as editable fields in Edit view. [18]

sp4ceman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:55:49 GMT

If i create an edit view, it generates a blank fieldset with a legend and a submit button, the actual fields from the object are not present.
I have tested this with a normal view and a partial view in vs2010.

Comments: I fixed this by replacing the Edit.tt's FilterProperties method right at the bottom of the template with the one from the Create.tt template and now it seems to be working.

Edited Issue: AddView/Edit.tt code template not generating the properties as editable fields in Edit view. [18]

sp4ceman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:38:17 GMT

Created Issue: Edit.tt code template not generating the properties as editable fields [18]

sp4ceman — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:36:01 GMT

Commented Issue: Issue with using LinqToSqlSession [15]

sp4ceman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:21:12 GMT

I am having an issue when trying to use the LinqToSqlSession. The file has a protected constructor which I changed to public. Then when I run the application, I'm getting an injection error in the log. What I can't figure out is how the constructor that takes the datacontext as a param gets called. It seems Ninject can't map it properly.

Message :Error activating string
No matching bindings are available, and the type is not self-bindable.
Activation path:
4) Injection of dependency string into parameter fileOrServerOrConnection of constructor of type DataContext
3) Injection of dependency DataContext into parameter dc of constructor of type LinqToSqlSession
2) Injection of dependency ISession into parameter session of constructor of type SessionController
1) Request for IController

Suggestions:
1) Ensure that you have defined a binding for string.
2) If the binding was defined in a module, ensure that the module has been loaded into the kernel.
3) Ensure you have not accidentally created more than one kernel.
4) If you are using automatic module loading, ensure the search path and filters are correct.

Comments: Nevermind, I was being dumb.

Commented Issue: Issue with using LinqToSqlSession [15]

sp4ceman — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:34:05 GMT

Reviewed: MVC Starter Site 0.5 (Jul 10, 2010)

cdeutsch — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:06:56 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Excellent set of tools to get you going with MVC. Best tutorial and tool set I've seen so far. I learned a lot. Nice work!