asp.net-mvc-2

This is happening when I try to create the entity using a Create style action in Asp.Net MVC 2. The POCO has the following properties: public int Id {get;set;} [Required] public string Message {get; set} On the creation of the entity, the Id is set automatically, so there is no need for it on the Create action. The ModelState says that "The Id field is required", but I haven't set that to be so. Is there something automatic going on here? EDIT - Reason Revealed The reason for the issue is answered by Brad Wilson via Paul Speranza in one of the comments below where he says (cheers Paul): You're

New to MVC and have been running through the tutorials on the asp.net website. They include an example of a custom html helper to truncate long text displayed in a table. Just wondering what other solutions people have come up with using HTML helpers and if there are any best practices or things to avoid when creating/using them. As an example, I was considering writing a custom helper to format dates that I need to display in various places, but am now concerned that there may be a more elegant solution(I.E. DataAnnotations in my models) Any thoughts? EDIT: Another potential use I just

I've given some thought to implementing badges (just like the badges here on Stack Overflow) and think it would be difficult without Windows services, but I'd like to avoid that if possible. I came up with a plan to implement some examples: Audobiographer: Check if all fields in the profile is filled out. Commentor: When making a comment check if the number of comments equal 10, if so award the badge. Good Answer: When voting up check to see if vote score is 25 or higher. How could this be implemented in the database? Or would another way be better? A similar-to-Stackoverflow implementation is

My MVC2 app uses a component that makes subsequent AJAX calls back to the same action, which causes all kinds of unnecessary data access and processing on the server. The component vendor suggests I re-route those subsequent requests to a different action. The subsequent requests differ in that they have a particular query string, and I want to know whether I can put constraints on the query string in my route table. For example, the initial request comes in with a URL like http://localhost/document/display/1 . This can be handled by the default route. I want to write a custom route to handle

I have a windows service which is using a method from a class library with same asp.net solution. in class library, I have a method with following line: reader = XmlReader.Create(HttpContext.Current.Server .MapPath("~/TestDevice/Data.xml"), settings); When control comes to this line. I get exception. I tried to debug the code and found that when service tries to access this method then HttpContext.Current.Server is null . What is alternative syntax. I tried to access this class library method from web application and it works fine. Please suggest solution. HttpContext.Current is returning null