Mayank Srivastava

Showing ASP.NET MVC 3.0 Views in jQuery ui dialog & Posting MVC forms from jQuery ui dialog

2012-02-06T00:34:00.001-06:00

“I blogged on this topic in September 2010 and received a few mail about showing how to create new object (as opposed to update) and also an implementation of this in MVC 3.0 using Razor. While the concepts and explanation in the previous blogs still hold correct, here’s an implementation using MVC 3.0 and Razor with some improvements. My apologies for not posting this blog as sooner; also

Slides and solution from MVC 3.0 presentation Session 2 at SDC Meetup Chicago

2011-08-09T23:31:00.001-05:00

It was a privilege to present the second final session for ASP.NET MVC 3.0 @ SDC meetup, covering the design considerations around MVC. Many thanks to the event hosts and as always, the audience interaction in the end was the best part. Following are the slides and solution from the presentation - Download slides here – | – Download the demo solution here. Here are some if the links

Slides and solution from MVC 3.0 presentation Session 1 at Software Development Community (SDC) Chicago

2011-07-14T21:52:00.001-05:00

It was a great pleasure to present MVC 3.0 at Software Development Community (SDC) Chicago July 10th 2011. Thank to Joel Shaw, Michael Kappel and the organizing team. The audience interaction was great. I will try to accommodate demo for the previous session’s question in my the next session on August 7th. Following are the slides and solution from the presentation - Download slides here

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 3 @ Chicago .NET User Group

2011-05-02T00:15:00.001-05:00

It was a privilege to present at CNUG, thanks to the great audience, Keith Franklin and the organizing team. You can download the slides and the demo solution from my presentation. If you have any queries about the presentation / demo solution, feel free to send a mail or post a comment. I will get back as the earliest.

The Beez Neez of 2010

2010-12-31T23:38:00.000-06:00

Here’s the list of things that “really” caught my attention in 2010. By really I mean, not just caught my attention but made me spend time in it and go – “That is so cool!” I finally rated these developments of 2010 base on #1 if they are entirely new (or how great are the 2010 features), #2 how much time I spent on it and #3 with how many people I went – “Hey did you hear about ….”

What is ASP.NET MVC - Why ASP.NET MVC?

2010-10-13T10:20:00.001-05:00

I recently gave a presentation within my organization, giving folks an introduction to the ASP.NET MVC framework and exploring what the 2.0 version has to offer. The response to the presentation was great, actually better than I expected. One of my colleagues also mentioned that there are many introductions to MVC out there but I drew the comparison between the MVC & Web Forms which kept

jQuery dialog extender for Asp.Net MVC Forms

2010-09-16T22:39:00.001-05:00

Continuing the previous post, let’s go ahead and implement the dialog extender for MVC forms (post actions). The mechanism will be similar with some details added. In case of a for we need to post to the server. If the post action was not successful, that is if validations failed, we need to show validation errors in the dialog. In case of any other unexpected error, appropriate message needs

jQuery dialog extender for Asp.Net MVC Views

2010-09-12T02:28:00.001-05:00

This idea came to me during a discussion at work. The requirement was to create put an Add/Edit form in a dialog box. I’ve always been against the idea of rendering the markup inside the dialog div before hand, as the user should NOT pay the cost of a rendering something that might not be needed. The idea went further to being able to provide the link to edit dialog any where in the application

The jQuery formula - Blocking UI and showing progress dialog across Ajax calls with Asp.Net MVC

2010-08-07T17:31:00.000-05:00

This post in in continuation to my previous post where I create a progress dialog blocking the UI across asynchronous postbacks for WebForms. I will do the same thing here using Asp.Net MVC, except for the fact that there no such thing as postback in MVC, It’s all Get - Post -Put – Delete (a true web framework) . Much of the initial content will be common not identical. The goal here is to

The jQuery formula - Blocking UI and showing progress dialog across asynchronous postbacks with ASP.NET Web Forms.

2010-08-06T00:02:00.001-05:00

The goal here is to not allow user to interact with the application, at the same time showing the user a dialog saying “Wait, let me first finish what you just asked me to do!” The version of jQuery that I’m using is 1.4.1 (downloadable here) and the version of jQuery UI I’m using is 1.8.2(downloadable here). I’ll be using ASP.NET 4.0 Web forms but this demo is valid for pervious version with

Error while implementing Ninject 2 in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Application - No parameterless constructor defined for this object.

2010-07-21T12:50:00.002-05:00

Ninject is a very cool open source Inversion of Control container and also has been promoted by some of the best in the industry. However, when I tried to implement Ninject V2 in my ASP.NET MVC 2 web application, I ran into the following error and spent a couple of frustrated hours going through blogs after blogs to make sure I’m implementing it right. So here’s the solution - Pull the

Showing temporary HTML UI between redirection and rending of web form

2010-05-06T13:26:00.002-05:00

The scenario leading to this solution was: The home page of my application takes almost 30 seconds. Sounds ridicules but during this time, the application makes 6 service calls using 2 services and from 4 different databases loading huge data in the cache and session. So that, any subsequent request will be very fast. That was the initial requirement before I started designing this application.

Telerik RAD Grid nested table view items

2010-05-05T12:10:00.002-05:00

In my current project, we are using the Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax very heavily, specially the Telerik’s RadGrid. I liked the product, the ease to implement and clean Ajaxification of all kind of server controls is cool. However, while working with Telerik’s RadGrid a came across a couple of problems. Thanks to the Telerik support team those issues were answered and taken care of.

Asynchronous data access using ADO.NET – The callback approach

2010-04-23T10:35:00.002-05:00

A very good book by the authors that I admire and appreciate mentioned the use of a class called SQLAsyncResult to access data asynchronously using ADO.NET 2.0 via the callback approach. My attempt to try out an example failed as I couldn’t find the SQLAsyncResult class, not in the namespace, not in the MSDN library. However, I did find a post on ASP.NET forum about a dev’s unsuccessful hunt for

Asynchronous Data Access using ADO.NET

2010-03-30T14:21:00.004-05:00

ADO.NET 2.0 enabled the infrastructure required for accessing data in asynchronous mode. Three standard approaches available to achieve this are: The Poll approach, The Wait approach & The Callback approach. The approach to choose will depend upon the scenario. Between the Poll and Wait approaches, the Wait approach is better. It provides a great deal of flexibility and efficiency with a bit

“A” for Asynchronous!

2010-03-10T11:42:00.005-06:00

For most parts, our software industry is driven by buzzwords. It becomes difficult to tell your Director or Manager – “I understand that it is very cool but it probably is not the best fit for our application.” Especially after he just attended a meeting where other of his designation/role have been repeatedly using that buzzword and flaunting how they have implemented it in their applications. “

Selecting appropriate WCF binding for your application.

2010-02-27T22:33:00.002-06:00

WFC comes with multiple bindings out of the box, allowing us to customize each one of them. It also allows us to create Custom Bindings (using Windows SDK) and User-Defined Bindings (a custom class inherited form the Binding class that performs all steps needed to create bindings) Here I intend to discuss the basic bindings that come out of the box. We will not be going in details of each

Debugging Java Script in Visual Studio

2010-02-11T16:03:00.035-06:00

Solution in the post is tested on Visual Studio 2008 & Visual Studio 2010 The best location to place java script in an ASP.NET application will be to put in a custom Java script file, conventionally “common.js” or “[appName].custom.js”. However, it’s not always possible to do this as we sometimes need to access the client IDs of the server controls and our javascript code end up

jQuery UI Dialog in jQuery Grid (jqGrid) with ASP.NET MVC

2009-06-26T00:36:00.033-05:00

This post is in continuation with my previous post where we created an ASP.NET MVC with JQgrid. Also, as we will be using the same solution on which we worked in the last post. Versions used – jQuery – 1.3.2 jqGrid – jqGrid 3.5 ALFA 3. jQuery UI 1.7.1 The source code of the demonstration can be downloaded here. A jQuery Dialog box is just HTML markup tags that sit in DIV tag

jQuery Grid plug-in (jqGrid) with ASP.NET MVC

2009-05-07T21:48:00.012-05:00

jqGrid is a great plug-in, making good use of jQuery. jqGrid can be downloaded here and the documentations can be found here. We will shortly see how to use this plug-in in ASP.NET MVC application. Versions used – jQuery – 1.3.2 jqGrid – jqGrid 3.5 ALFA 3. The source code of the demonstration can be downloaded here. To get started, we create a new ASP.NET MVC Web Application.