Showing all posts tagged: 'MVC'

A 13-post collection

A brief introduction to MiniBlog

Ah, the joys of blogging. Blogging in our industry is vital and, thankfully, these days there are many tools and frameworks that can help us with this task: Wordpress Ghost Github Pages Blogger The above are some of the most known ones. Most of them can host your blog for you ("on the cloud") and some allow you to deploy the blog engine to your own servers. My preference is to own both the engine and content. The important thing, however, is that blogging is easy! On the other hand, as easy as it is to get started, …[read more]

Upload files in ASP.NET MVC with JavaScript and C#.

In an earlier [post](GHOST_URL/upload-files-to-the-server-using-javascript-and-mvc-webapi/" target="_blank), I described how to implement a file upload using [Ajax](http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/" target="_blank) and [ASP.NET WebAPI](http://www.asp.net/web-api" target="_blank). This works great but it means that you need to have a WebAPI controller to manage the requests. If you already have a WebAPI in your solution then you can simply extend it to manage file uploads. However, there's no reason to add a WebAPI only for file uploads. Instead you can use an MVC controller …[read more]

Processing Payments and with Stripe, JavaScript and C# - PCI compliant

The source code and post have been updated to use the latest Stripe.NET API => v4.2 Online payments! We've all used them and some of us may have had the "fortune" implementing them on one website or another. [Stripe](http://stripe.com" target="_blank") is the not-so-new kid on the block, since it recently expanded in many countries, that makes this development task a breeze. If you are using .NET, then [Stripe.NET](https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net" target="_blank) is an excellent library that hides away most of the …[read more]

Upload files to the server using Javascript and MVC WebAPI

The ASP.NET WebAPI is really versatile and powerful and I like to use it as much as I can when I develop for the web. I know that MVC controller methods can also process ajax requests, but I like the separation of concerns. WebAPI for REST calls and MVC for Views and the ViewModels manipulation. Note: if you still want to use MVC instead of WebAPI for your server implementation, have a read here. Recently, I had to implement a method to upload files to the server from an MVC view. I decided to use ajax and WebAPI. Once …[read more]

How to bind an Enum to a DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC

Prior to ASP.NET MVC 5, the only way to bind an enum to a drop down list in an MVC view was to roll out your own HtmlHelper, which is the best way to extend MVC's functionality. These days, with MVC 5 at your disposal, you can bind any enum to a view control easily by calling the "oh so handy" EnumDropDownListFor HTML helper. Details on the helper can be found here and works like any other build in HTML helper, with a model, a model property and a bunch of additional attributes that allow you to …[read more]

Updating an MVC Partial View with Ajax

Partial views in ASP.NET MVC are great. They allow you to update only a part of the DOM without having to perform a full page refresh or a postback. Surely, there are many ways to achieve this, such as ajax and WebAPI, however, partial views have one major benefit over the other methods: Strongly-typed datamodels! Using this approach, the controller can push a nice object model back to the partial view instead of Json and we can take advantage of Razor and/or scaffolding for data presentation while enhancing the whole user experience. In this example, we will create …[read more]

WebApi controller action with comma-separated parameter values

Today I've run across an issue where I had to create a WebAPI GET action that could accept, among other things, a parameter with comma-separated values. If you ever need to implement this, then that's one way to do it: Create an action filter### The action filter will be used to intercept the action call and process the comma-separated parameter. Then, you simply assing the action filter to the controller action and you can carry on with the next task at hand. A practical example### First, let's create the action filter. Create a new class and name it something like …[read more]

Processing payments on your site using Stripe and C#

Update: The current example of processing payments is NOT PCI-compliant as the card details are posted to the server. A better approach is to use the Stripe.js to generate the token and then process the payment - thanks to Christian Bryant for raising it in the comments. Take me to the PCI-Compliant option now As a web developer you are bound to have come across a requirement to implement some form of online payment processing for a site. This can be achieved using any number of third party providers such as Sage or PayPal etc. Although most of these …[read more]