asp.net-mvc-2

As the question title explains, what is the best way to specify a format which my Views use when displaying values of a DateTime property via the Html.TextboxFor method. The default display includes the Date and Time where I really only want the Date displayed. Thanks In your model definition add the DisplayFormatAttribute to the DateTime property: [DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")] public DateTime Date { get; set; } Then in your View call: <%=Html.EditorFor(m => m.Date)%> If all goes well you should get a TextBox with the value filled in in the

Where is the best place to do mappings from view model to domain model? By mappings I mean from my EditGrantApplicationViewModel to a GrantApplication object. Lets say that I have the following action method (partial code): [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(EditGrantApplicationViewModel editGrantApplicationViewModel) { if (!ModelState.IsValid) { return View("Create", editGrantApplicationViewModel); } return View("Index"); } Do I need to pass editGrantApplicationViewModel to a service layer method and do the mappings in the method? You should not place any of your mapping logic inside the

I have an MVC 2 application where the timeout is set to 2880 (minutes as I understand it, but even if it is seconds there's a problem): <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" /> </authentication> Now this should then mean 48 hours, or at least 48 minutes (if the value is seconds). But the user is logged out after as little as a couple of minutes of inactivity... Why is that? Any help appreciated! Found the answer finally after a lot of Googling... You have to set a custom machinekey in the web.config file. I used this generator: http://aspnetresources

I have an azure website which is named: http://myapp.cloudapp.net Of-course this URL is kind of ugly so I set up a CNAME that points http://www.myapp.com to the azure url. All is well up until here, but there is a snag. http://myapp.cloudapp.net has leaked out and now is indexed by google and lives on other sites. I would like to permanently redirect any requests for myapp.cloudapp.net to the new home at www.myapp.com The website I have is coded in MVC.Net 2.0, as this is an azure app, there is not UI to access IIS and everything needs to be done in application code or web.config. What is a

Asp.net MVC2 does redirect to login page with response 302 when authenticated user has no rights. I would like to split into two actions If user is not authenticated then do what it does, redirect to login page. If user is authenticated but has no required rights then return appropriate http status code and show no rights dude page. Is there any way to do it? Or am I doing something wrong with authorize and form authentication? Only way I can think of is by writing custom authorize attribute, which I want to avoid. You could write custom filter attribute like this: public class

I am using MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.1 (http://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com), and am having a problem with creating children under a dynamic node (using a dynamicNodeProvider) when those children have a dynamic parameter (id). I am losing breadcrumbs for the following route: Stores/5/Products/Edit/23 where the url pattern is: Stores/{storeID}/{controller}/{action}/{id} It works fine when the ID is left out (ie the "New" action). But when the ID is specified, it doesn't match the route, and my breadcrumbs (using the SiteMapPath helper) is blank. My Sitemap: (abreviated) <?xml version="1.0" encoding=