asp.net-mvc-2

I had updated my app from MVC 1 to MVC 2. After that some pages throws PathTooLongException : [PathTooLongException: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.] System.IO.Path.SafeSetStackPointerValue(Char* buffer, Int32 index, Char value) +7493057 System.IO.Path.NormalizePathFast(String path, Boolean fullCheck) +387 System.IO.Path.NormalizePath(String path, Boolean fullCheck) +36 System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path) +21 System.Security.Util

I am trying to use IIS 7.5 Application Pool identity as login on SQL Server 2008 R2 so that my ASP.NET web app can connect to the database... Using this approach worked fine on my local dev machine (IIS 7.5 and SQL Server 2008 R2 on same machine). However, when I try to set up the same on production (IIS and SQL servers are separate) I am unable to add "IIS APPPOOL\MyAppAppPool" login to SQL Server 2008 R2. Notice that in either case you cannot use "Browse..." when creating a login in SQL Server since "IIS APPPOOL\MyAppAppPool" user identity is dynamic (or "special")... Any ideas? Update: For

Is there a dataannotation validate rule for a collection based property? I have the following <DisplayName("Category")> <Range(1, Integer.MaxValue, ErrorMessage:="Please select a category")> Property CategoryId As Integer <DisplayName("Technical Services")> Property TechnicalServices As List(Of Integer) I'm looking for a validator that i can add to the TechnicalServices property to set a minimum for the collection size. I think something like this might help: public class MinimumCollectionSizeAttribute : ValidationAttribute { private int _minSize; public MinimumCollectionSizeAttribute(int

Using Entity Framework with MVC2, I have a series of date textboxes, that I want to display data from the model in a short date format, but I have to use Html.TextBoxFor in order for the update code to work (Having tried using HTML.Textbox the data never gets saved to the model). <%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Item.Date, String.Format("{0:d}", Model.Item.Date))%> I've tried manipulating the string format expression, and have added metadata to a partial class mapped to the Entity Framework model class, however still I get the following populating my textboxes at form render: 01/01/2011 00

In my MVC2 AdminArea I'd like to create an overview table for each of my domain models. I am using DataAnnotations like the following for the properties of those domain model objects: [DisplayName("MyPropertyName")] public string Name { get; set; } Now my question is: How can I access the DisplayName Attribute if my view receives a collection of my domain models? I need this to build the table headers which are defined outside of the usual <% foreach (var item in Model) { %> loop. Inside this loop I can write <%: Html.LabelFor(c => item.Name) %> but is there any way to access this information

In almost every ASP.NET MVC example I've come across, I always see Url.Content being used to reference CSS, JavaScript, and Images. Not once has anyone explained WHY to use it. Anyone care to explain? What's so bad about doing: <img src="/Content/Img/MyImage.png" alt="My Image" /> <script src="/Scripts/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="/Content/Css/Default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" /> What you have works the same as Url.Content(). Url.Content() is just like adding a ~ to be beginning of your paths: <script src="~/Scripts/jquery.js" type="text

I've got a dropdownlist: <%= Html.DropDownList("ddlNames", new SelectList(Model.NameList, "ID", "Name"))%> I've got an ActionLink: <%: Html.ActionLink("edit", "Edit", "Members", new { area = "MembersArea", id = XXX }, null)%> I want the value of the dropdownlist in the XXX. So I want to use values from controls on a view in the ActionLink. Is that possible in a simple manner? thanks, Filip You can't do this because the html helpers execute at the server side while the dropdown value can change at the client side. The only way to achieve it is to use javascript. You could register for the

I am building images from a byte[] like below. public FileContentResult GetEmployeeImage(int empId) { MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(byteArray); Image returnImage = Image.FromStream(ms); return returnImage;//How should i return this image to be consumed by javascript. } I want to return this image to the browser via a controller action method, so as it can be consumed by my javascript code and displayed in the browser. How should I do this? You don't need to create an image object; you just want to return the raw data. The browser will read the raw data into an image. return File(byteArray