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Questions tagged [asp.net-mvc5]

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Should I be using both AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC?

I started learning AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC, but am not sure why to use them both together in the same project? Aren't they both MVC frameworks? Should I be using them both in the same application? Isn't it one or the other?
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Correct Way to Implementing Authorization Checks in ASP MVC

In ASP MVC we have the Authorize attribute to perform check at either a controller level or at a controller method level. But what if you need to do check permissions inside a controller method e.g let say your doing some update or create action to…
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Plugin Strategy For MVC 5 Site

I am working on setting up a multi-tenant site, where users can select a theme. Each of these themes have different settings, so I would like someone to be able to select a theme and then when they edit their site settings it would bring up a form…
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MVC - Problems with passing ViewModel directly to / from repository

I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 site. I have several complex view models - usually subsets of a far larger model. Should I create items in the repository that take the ViewModels - then just use Dapper.net to map them to some SQL? If not I would have to map…
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How to automate certains tasks in a web application?

I'm working on my final project for a course named Web Applications in ASP.NET. Basically, it's a web application for shopkeepers to manage their clients' money accounts in their stores. In order to open an account, the shopkeeper and the other…
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Proper MVC5 Layered Implementation

I am fairly new to MVC5 Development and I have been doing a lot of reading about Layered Design, DI, IoC, etc... I feel that I am getting a grasp of concepts, however when it comes down to writing a good example I struggle. To ask my question I…
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ModelState Validation vs JQuery vs Remote

I was stuck with some validations for quite a while. I have been thoroughly searching the internet to find ways to apply the validations I require. I came across many methods for validations even certain Nuget packages. But in most cases my…
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How do you handle saving blog tags in MVC?

I'm writing my own blog engine as a learning exercise. The blog is fairly functional right now but I'm trying to add a 'tag' feature to it and I'm confused as to what the best way to handle saving a list of tags back to my controller. My…
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Encrypt data in code or stored procedures?

I'm working on a Web App where the data is quite sensitive and is required to be encrypted before it is stored in the database. Now there are two ways through which I can achieve this: Encrypt data in the code Encrypt data in stored procedures…
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MVC remote validation approach

I have a model, the model has 2 strings; foo and bar. foo is what it is, it will be one of x amount of possible values (it's not an enum, though). bar is entered by the user, so I want to validate it. But I want the validation to be driven by foo,…
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Where to store translations for values to their corresponding display texts?

This is probably a naive question but I'm trying to figure out the industry best practice for working with magic numbers and their corresponding display texts. For example, whether a transaction is debit or credit might be stored as a bit field in…
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Should I create a new Model for a filtered view of Existing model?

I am new to MVC, and just inherited a project that is still in it's early stages. The scope is a user interface to manage a single SQL table. There is a model that represents the entire table (select * from table). The previous programmer also…
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Databaseless ASP.NET MVC 5 on top of an external REST API

Where you would envision an out-of the-box ASP.NET MVC 5 web application on top of an MSSQL database, I have now been placed in a situation where I'm supposed to use custom external token endpoints and use bearer tokens to make authenticated API…
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Entity Framework 6 and Stored Procedures

I'm new to Entity Framework, and currently developing an MVC 5 application with Code-First Entity Framework 6.1.2. I need to write custom reports. Instead of writing complex linq, I can write a couple quick Stored Proc's and write the results to…
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Asp.Net Mvc 5 / Web Api 2 unit testing data access layer

Let's say I have IRepository interface implemented by Repository class(uses database context to implement IRepository methods). And IUnitOfWork interface implemented by UnitOfWork class using IRepository. My questions are: 1) Should I unit test…
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