Andrey Shchekin's Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 1

Steven — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:38:49 -0000

Simple Injector is missing from the comparison. There's a answer on Stackoverflow that uses this article's feature list, to compare Simple Injector: http://stackoverflow.com/a/819...

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

David Faucher — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:51:05 -0000

For anyone curious, I had a similar issue and the problem was in my Action. I was using return View(model), so the server was looking for an "Action" view which really does not exist. The simple fix is to specifiy the view in the return: return View("Edit", model).

Thanks for this solution. It has helped make a very nice Edit/Preview feature work efficently and cleanly.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Ambrish — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:28:39 -0000

Hello Andrey,

If i left the Html.BeginForm() as default then irrespective of which button i click the actionName parameter is always the same, Ex: "delete", so my collection of buttons only behavior in the same way. If i left the Html.BeginForm("Action", "Post") as you used in this article then the IsValidName will always return false and no method at all will be executed. Am I missing on anything here?

Regards,
Ambrish

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Ambrish — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:34:08 -0000

Hi Diego,

Can you please explain what was the mistake and what fix you had to do. I am facimg the same problem.

Regards,
Ambrish

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

willem dhaeseleer — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:03:12 -0000

Hey Andrey,

This solution is just excellent, very clean , much better then the proposed solution from David Findley

I added some commenting and swapped the hard coded "Action" for a default, check it out:
http://pastebin.com/PhnKDekw

I will be using this whenever i use multiple buttons, in other situations i usually just use jQuery Postback.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Richard Lim — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:53:44 -0000

Hi,

I can't really get it to work with JQuery, seems to be conflicting in some area. Any ideas?

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Andrey Shchekin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:44:21 -0000

It depends on a mindset — if you are looking for a solution, yes, there are several ways to do this.
However I wanted to solve it in the way MVC framework has intended for controllers to be used — abstracted from the lowest details of HTTP (see Model Binders etc).

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

sarah perrie — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:47:13 -0000

this seems like a very complicated solution to a very simple issue. All you have to do is give each button a unique name, set the names as optional string parameters with default empty string values, then check if the parameters have a value.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

DGurram — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:07:00 -0000

Very clean. I like it. Thanks for a great post.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Prateeksasanker — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:59:22 -0000

I am having the problem in passing an id to my action method. The id passed is null. I have read the comments in the blog but haven't found any solutions. Can anybody who previously faced the same problem help me

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Garry — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:20:03 -0000

Thats work fine.
But what if u use Ajax.BeginForm? can we have more than one actionmethod?

Re: Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 2

Naser — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:51:25 -0000

Great article. But a bit dated. A update will do a lot of good.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Jackandjane — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:38:32 -0000

Very useful, thanks.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

teachM3 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:21:25 -0000

Ahhhh, ok, that makes perfect sense now, I'm so used to strongly typed views being a requirement due to the fact that it's required in all of our designs at work. Great post, I'll see if I can come up with an implementation using strongly typed views.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Andrey Shchekin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:47:17 -0000

That's weird. Can you look at what exactly gets submitted? (using Firebug, for example)

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Andrey Shchekin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:46:30 -0000

Yes, I agree, and I should probably create a separate class for the name.
But I am a bit too lazy right now to update the post, so I'll leave it for now with only a demonstration of more complex part.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Andrey Shchekin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:43:30 -0000

Well the actions are not strongly typed when used this way.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Andrey Shchekin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:27:57 -0000

I haven't yet had time to look into it since I do not have image buttons, sorry.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

teachM3 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:24:18 -0000

Maybe I'm completely missing something here, but if you don't provide an action with the Name of "Action" in your Post controller, how does the view even compile?

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Werewolf — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:46 -0000

Great post!

As for your last statement of: There is some room for improvements (hardcoded “action” as a default action name), but in general I’m satisfied with this solution.
How about adding a static read only property to the attribute?
i.e.
public class HttpParamActionAttribute : ActionNameSelectorAttribute
{
... existing code here ... with one change
if (!actionName.Equals(ActionName (<-- referencing the property so there's only one place to change the action name)

/// <summary>
/// Gets the name of the action for the Html.BeginForm to allow multiple submit buttons to invoke specific action methods in ASP.NET MVC.
///


	/// using (Html.BeginForm(HttpParamActionAttribute.ActionName, "Controller Name Here")) {
	/// <button type="submit" name="ActualActionName">Save</button>
	/// }
	///

/// </summary>
/// <value>
/// The name of the action.
/// </value>
public static string ActionName
{
get { return "MultipleSubmitButtons"; }
}
}

and the begin form looking like:
using (Html.BeginForm(HttpParamActionAttribute.ActionName, "Post")

If you don't care for the ActionName property being in the actual attribute, you could create a new class both the attribute and BeginForm method can use...

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

AEL — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:16:19 -0000

Correction partial view not partial class.

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

AEL — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:09:03 -0000

Hi, thanks for this blog however this won't work for the buttons in the partial class.

Here's the code snippet when calling the partial class:
asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="PageContent" runat="server">
<%Html.RenderAction("PartialView"); %>

<%
using (Html.BeginForm("Action", "Post", new { index =ViewData["index"] ))
{ %>

Please advice.

Thanks,
AEL

Re: Multiple submit buttons with ASP.NET MVC: final solution

Sebastian — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:42:51 -0000

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)] //---You Forget it !!!
public class HttpParamActionAttribute : ActionNameSelectorAttribute {
...
}

Sebastian.

Re: Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 2

Martin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:44:33 -0000

If curious about the performance of some of the most popular IOC containers take a look www.iocbattle.com.
Dynamo included is my own project to test how fast it is possible to go.

Re: .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Revisited

Martin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:42:45 -0000

If curious about the performance of some of the most popular IOC containers take a look www.iocbattle.com.