jQuery Unobtrusive Ajax in ASP.NET MVC 3
Let’s talk today a little bit about very useful and easy to use in MVC 3 jQuery library called jQuery.Ajax.Unobtrusive. With a MVC 1 and 2 Microsoft provide library to work with AJAX requests. Already then was created Ajax helper to render form and link with unobtrusive parameters for AJAX requests. But these parameters were handled only by MicrosoftMvcAjax JavaScript library. The problem is that this library is what a lot of users doesn’t want it to use. Instead, they prefer to use jQuery – “write less, do more”. With MVC 3 situation become better. Microsoft released jQuery.Ajax.Unotrusive JavaScript library. I will show you how easy we can make AJAX form (or action link) with Ajax helper and the JavaScript library.
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Using SQL Server for ASP .NET session state on hosting service provider
Can be several reasons why to use SQL Server for session state. In my case hosting service provider does not allow me to control application pool so user losing his session state from time to time and it’s very big issue. There are a lot of articles in Internet how to setup database to store ASP.NET session state, but no one explains how to setup it on a remote SQL Server database where you have no ‘sa’ rights. The problem with a standard InstallSqlState.sql script is that it tries to create SQL server job for cleaning up database from expired sessions.
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Create command line automated build for MVC app with msbuild 4 OR Visual Studio 2010 Publish command for msbuild Command line
I always wanted to have ability build or deploy my website with one run of the .bat or .cmd file. Of course there is software for this like Cruise Control or AntHill for example. But just for one small blog or website you don’t want to spend a lot of time for installing and configuring of these heavy tools.
So I always wanted to have "Publish" function from Visual Studio as a command line. And I found it! So let me share with you my experience how to build command line automated build for MVC web app.
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SyntaxHighlighter 3.0.83 after AJAX call "Can't find brush for: BRUSH" fix
After implementing pagination on my website, I was not able to highlight the code with SyntaxHighliter plugin. After AJAX call script was throwing an error: "Can't find brush for: BRUSH". After little research I found reported bug and temporary solution...
This fix is works for me and I think it can be helpful to share with others this experience. I made this fix in plugin source code, combine shCore.js, shAutoloader.js and XRegExp.js files into one, minify and compress it with YUICompressor.
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MVC Custom Error Pages
In previous article I shown you how to use log4net to log errors and redirect to custom error page. The problem in this approach is redirection. It’s not good for SEO to make redirection to custom error page.
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Versioning JavaScript and CSS files or How to update static files on client side
If you have enabled expiry headers, entity tags, etc. (and even if not), anyway most of the browsers have enabled cache. But how can we force client browser to load new version of JavaScript file or CSS static file? Especially if you did a change in any site specific static file. File from browser cache can broke behavior of website or/and design. So how to tell browser to load updated static file?
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How to Deploy an ASP.NET MVC 3 App to Web Hosting with "\bin Deployment"
If your hosting provider don’t support MVC 3 but have MVC 2 installed you still can deploy your web app. Solution is simple – MVC 3 files should be in Bin folder of your solution. Here is the list:
Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll
System.Web.Helpers.dll
System.Web.Mvc.dll
System.Web.Razor.dll
System.Web.WebPages.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.dll
System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll
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How to Compress components with gzip OR Enable dynamic and static compression
According to the YSlow article compressing with gzip generally reduces the response size by about 70%.
As we can see little change in settings can improve performance of website.
As this is IIS web server setting you can configure it in two ways:
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How to: Turn on MVC compiled views or Turning on views compilation
Turning on views compilation will tell the compiler to compile your views and you will catch any errors (in views code) whenever you compile. Very handy and saves sometime. Unfortunately, it does add some time to the build process. If you have a lot of views, this could be lengthy, so you may want to disable this later.
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Image + ActionLink = Html.ImageActionLink
If you want to put image inside link using HTML.ActionLink you can use next nice implementation of extension method:
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