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I want to display a prompt message when he is redirceted from a special page, how can accomplish this?
Passing messsage as paramater is not so pretty.
a used a booling paramater to determinig situation to display message.

Why not pass the boolean in ViewData (whether to display the message) based upon interrogating Request.ServerVariables["http_referer"] in your controller?
in controller
ViewData["DisplayMessage"] =
Request.ServerVariables["http_referer"] == "http://Special.com";
in view
<% if ((bool)ViewData["DisplayMessage"])){ %>
<div>YOUR MESSAGE</div>
<% } %>
Kindness,
Dan

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Hide controls in ascx without access to code behind

I have a website which is written in VB.NET. I do not have access to code behind and only have access aspx/ascx pages. I have some controls like this in my ascx file.
<img src="../css/icons/login.svg" />
I want to make them visible based on if user is logged in or not logged in. I remember it is possible to put the code in design files but I do not remember the syntax in VB.NET and make it visible/unvisible for these controls.
If you do not need to access that link in code behind, which would seem to be the case, you can construct the html as a ternary operator. That way you avoid binding expressions.
<%= Request.IsAuthenticated ? "Login" : "" %>
Or as an inline if statement
<% if (Request.IsAuthenticated == false) { %>
Login
<% } %>
VB Example
<% Dim IsAuth As String = IIf(Request.IsAuthenticated = False, "Login", "") %>
<%= IsAuth %>

Rendering view in ASP.Net MVC

In my code I am using a partial view (call it PV1)
<div id="div_1">
<% Html.Partial("PV1", Model); %>
</div>
and in that partial view I am using "Ajax.BeginForm" to redirect it to a particular action, hence it is doing so ...
using (Ajax.BeginForm("action1", "Forms", null, new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "div_1" }, new { id = "form1" }))
{
Response.write("I am here.");
}
public ActionResult action1(XYZ Model)
{
//
return PartialView("PV1", Model);
}
at the last line of action I am again calling the same partial 'PV1', hence it is doing this too ...
but when rendering the view it don't print or do the steps written with in partial view, it override them with and show nothing ...
Html.Partial actually returns the result of rendering the view, you want to do <%= Html.Partial() %> or <% Html.RenderPartial(); %>
Html.Partial() returns the Html and thusly must be output on the page via <%= %> and Html.RenderPartial() uses Response.Write to output onto the page and can be used with <% %>.
This is not what you would use Ajax.BeginForm for. That helper is used to create actual <form> tags that will later be submitted to the server using MVC's unobtrusive ajax (so you still need some kind of a trigger action - a button, javascript - anything that submits the form).
I'm am not very clear on what you're trying to achieve. If you want to load a partial view with ajax, I would suggest using something like jQuery's ajax load method.

Using c# dynamic with embedded code in an aspx page

In my code behind I have a public IEnumerable<dynamic> AllTransactions{ get; set; } that is composed of {Transaction, String} (created via linq-to-sql as a new anonymous object) where Transaction is a custom class I have created.
In my aspx page I would like to do the following
<% foreach (dynamic trans in AllTransactions) { %>
<span><%= trans.transaction.Amount %></span>
<% } %>
In my code behind I can refer to trans.transaction.Amount inside a foreach but I don't seem to have any luck on aspx pages. I get an exception:
Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'transaction'
At the same time, if I have the debugger running I can look at 'trans' and I see it has a Transaction object inside it called 'transaction' and it has my string as well. Further, the 'transaction' object inside it contains a value for Amount. It seems that Microsoft is somewhere converting my dynamic to an object.
One other test I did was spit out what the type of trans is with GetType() and got this:
<>f__AnonymousTypef`2[ProjectName.Packages.Investment.Business.Transaction,System.String]
This is not a regular 'object', so I'm not sure what the type of this is. Any ideas as to why my foreach doesn't work and what I can do differently?
Try binding your data to a repeater control. It was designed to output html for items in lists, and will help you separate your design from your logic, which is generally considered a much better practice than trying to dynamically generate html in script.
Can you try this as below?
<% foreach (dynamic trans in AllTransactions) { %>
<span><%= trans.Amount %></span>
<% } %>
Or can you check whether the definition of the custom class Transaction includes a member variable whose name is "Transaction"?

asp.net mvc user control problem foreach loop

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<%# Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %>
<%
MvcApplication1.Models.FeaturesRepository _model = new MvcApplication1.Models.FeaturesRepository();
%>
<% foreach (var md in _model.GetAllFeatures())
{ %>
<li><%= md.vcr_FeaturesName %></li>
<% } %>
It is with reference to the previous post above.Is there something wrong with the foreach loop(The result is correct but it is displaying the series of Add,Add,Add,Add,Add,Add...,which is the last record of the getallfeatures.
#mazhar, instead of creating your model like you are, in MVC you should return the model to the view.
In your controller you would say something like return View(MyModel);
I don't see anything wrong, per-sey, with your foreach but if you are going to replicate a control over and over you may want to consider a PartialView and rendering that by passing the appropriate model to it.
<% foreach ( var md in model.features ) Html.RenderPartial(md); %>
The above is untested but close I think.
I haven't looked at the previous post because I think you need to get this into the MVC way first. I don't think there is technically anything incorrect in your code and suspect it's your controller and model code.
I've edited your post to remove the commented out code. Very confusing leaving it in.

Implementing a search page using url parameters in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

Let's say I have a search page called Search.aspx that takes a search string as a url parameter ala Google (e.g. Search.aspx?q=This+is+my+search+string).
Currently, I have an asp:TextBox and an asp:Button on my page. I'm handling the button's OnClick event and redirecting in the codebehind file to Search.aspx?q=
What about with ASP.NET MVC when you don't have a codebehind to redirect with? Would you create a GET form element instead that would post to Search.aspx? Or would you handle the redirect in some other manner (e.g. jQuery event attached to the button)?
You need to understand that MVC doesn't directly reference .aspx pages like WebForms in its URLs. Its main purpose is to separate concerns, that is model (data), controller (logic), and view (presentation).
First, you'd have to create a route matching your URLs, which would now look like this for example : /home/search/This+is+my+search+string
This would call the Search action method of the Home controller, which would get "This is my search string" as an input parameter. This action is responsible for accessing the model and pulling the results probably from a database.
Typically, your search action would then return a ViewResult containing the view placed in the folder /Views/Home/Search.aspx. Here, you can use neither the Postback functionality nor the events of your Web controls like in WebForms, because MVC applications are stateless and not event-driven. It's more like a request/dispatch way of doing things.
Read more about MVC here.
Create a user control called Search.ascx with a form:
<% using (Html.BeginForm ("Search", "Home")) { %>
<input name="search" type="text" size="16" id="search" />
<input type="image" name="search-image" id="search-image" src="search.gif" />
<% } %>
And in your search action all you need is the following:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Search (string search)
{
throw new Exception (string.Format ("Search: {0}", search));
}
}
In your master page or wherever you can then add
<% Html.RenderPartial ("Search"); %>
You can use a simple javascript in the button's onclick to redirect to the search page:
Search <input type="text" id="go" size="4" /><input type="button" value="<%=Html.Encode(">>") %>" onclick="javascript:window.location='<%=Url.Action("Search", "Home") %>/' + document.getElementById('go').getAttribute('value')" />

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