The jQuery UI library has a dialog widget that I use for things like this.  While it&#39;s a plugin, IMO, the best practice is simply not rolling your own dialog widget.

http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/

Lunchy&#39;s dialog suggestion is nice. Just make an ajax request to your controller action and have the action return what you want to display, like a partial view with some formatting html. Then, put that html into your dialog, or whatever you plan to display, and show it.

One of the things that goes hand in hand with MVC is RESTful urls.  That being the case the &quot;standard&quot; way of handling this would be to have the details pull up a new page with it&#39;s own, RESTful (and bookmarkable) URL instead of flying a dialog over the page.  You could certainly do a &quot;details preview&quot; dialog within the context of the list, but if you&#39;re going to interact with the details, I&#39;d consider doing a full request and get the details on it&#39;s own page.

Can Java properties file reference other properties file?

    ## define a default directory for Input files  
    dir.default=/home/data/in/
    
    dir.proj1=${dir.default}p1
    dir.proj2=${dir.default}p2
    dir.proj3=${dir.default}p3

Is this possible?


How to reference another property in java.util.Properties?

In Windows, how do I determine (using C#) what process locked a file? 

Third-party tools are helpful, but not what I&#39;m looking for.



Using C#, how does one figure out what process locked a file?

I am looking for the most standard way to achieve modal dialogs in ASP.NET MVC.  

An example of what I am trying to do is when I select an item from my &quot;list&quot; page, I want the &quot;details&quot; page to be a popup over the list and NOT a new page.  I&#39;m not looking for a hack.  I want it to be a solution that follows the ASP.NET MVC pattern.  I would also prefer not stepping outside jQuery and ASP.NET Ajax (no plugins UNLESS it is emerging as a best practice).

ASP.NET MVC modal dialog/popup best practice

<p>I am looking for the most standard way to achieve modal dialogs in ASP.NET MVC.</p>
<p>An example of what I am trying to do is when I select an item from my "list" page, I want the "details" page to be a popup over the list and NOT a new page.  I'm not looking for a hack.  I want it to be a solution that follows the ASP.NET MVC pattern.  I would also prefer not stepping outside jQuery and ASP.NET Ajax (no plugins UNLESS it is emerging as a best practice).</p>


I&#39;m trying to load some stuff using AJAX when a user clicks a link, but I want the link to actually go somewhere so that the app still works when javascript is disabled. Is there any way to just do something with javascript and cancel navigation when a link is clicked?

What&#39;s the best practice? Can that be done, or do I need to replace the link using javascript or what?

How to cancel navigation when user clicks a link (&lt;a&gt; element)?

When I make a draggable clone and drop it in a droppable I cannot drag it again. How do I do that? Secondly I can only figure out how to us `.append` to add the clone to the droppable. But then it snaps to the top-left corner after any existing element and not the drop position.

    $(document).ready(function() {
    	$(&quot;#container&quot;).droppable({
    		drop: function(event, ui) {
    			$(this).append($(ui.draggable).clone());
    		}
    	});
    	$(&quot;.product&quot;).draggable({
    		helper: &#39;clone&#39;
    	});
    });
    &lt;/script&gt;
    
    &lt;div id=&quot;container&quot;&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div id=&quot;products&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;img id=&quot;productid_1&quot; src=&quot;images/pic1.jpg&quot; class=&quot;product&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;
    	&lt;img id=&quot;productid_2&quot; src=&quot;images/pic2.jpg&quot; class=&quot;product&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;
    	&lt;img id=&quot;productid_3&quot; src=&quot;images/pic3.jpg&quot; class=&quot;product&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;



When I make a draggable clone and drop it in a droppable I cannot drag it again

How do I create a `div` element in **jQuery**?


Creating a div element in jQuery

I have a jQuery UI dialog box with a form. I would like &lt;Enter&gt; to simulate a click on one of the dialog&#39;s buttons so you don&#39;t have to use the mouse or tab over to it. In other words, I want it to act like a regular GUI dialog box where &lt;Enter&gt; simulates hitting the &quot;OK&quot; button.

I assume this might be a simple option with the dialog, but I can&#39;t find it in the [jQuery UI documentation][1]. I could bind each form input with keyup() but didn&#39;t know if there was a simpler/cleaner way. Thanks.


  [1]: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/

Submit jQuery UI dialog on &lt;Enter&gt;

How to set radio option checked onload with jQuery? 

Need to check if no default is set and then set a default

how to set radio option checked onload with jQuery

I think that the title pretty much sums it up:

What&#39;s the difference between `RouteLink()` and `ActionLink()` in ASP.NET MVC?

i.e. when do you use `Html.RouteLink()` and when do you use `Html.ActionLink()` in your View?

What&#39;s the difference between RouteLink and ActionLink in ASP.NET MVC?

How can I have lowercase, plus underscore if possible, routes in ASP.NET MVC? So that I would have `/dinners/details/2` call `DinnersController.Details(2)` and, if possible, `/dinners/more_details/2` call `DinnersController.MoreDetails(2)`?

All this while still using patterns like `{controller}/{action}/{id}`.

How can I have lowercase routes in ASP.NET MVC?

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&gt; [What is the best way to return XML from a controller&amp;#39;s action in ASP.NET MVC?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/134905/what-is-the-best-way-to-return-xml-from-a-controllers-action-in-asp-net-mvc)  

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I&#39;m able to return JSON and partial views (html) as a valid ActionResult, but how would one return an XML string?



How to return an XML string as an action result in MVC

ASP.NET MVC can generate HTML elements using HTML Helpers, for example `@Html.ActionLink()`, `@Html.BeginForm()` and so on.

I know I can specify form attributes by creating an [anonymous object](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb397696.aspx) and pass that object for the (fourth in this case) `htmlAttributes` parameter where specifying an `id` for the element: 

    Html.BeginForm(&quot;Foo&quot;, &quot;Bar&quot;, FormMethod.Post, new { id = &quot;MyForm&quot;})

But what about the `class` attribute? Obviously this does not work:

    Html.BeginForm(&quot;Foo&quot;, &quot;Bar&quot;, FormMethod.Post, new { class = &quot;myclass&quot;})

As that just throws random syntax errors when my view is requested, because it expects something else after encountering the C# keyword `class`.

I&#39;ve also tried:

    new { _class = &quot;myclass&quot;}

and 

    new { class_ = &quot;myclass&quot;}

But they also did not work, as the [underscores get replaced by dashes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4108943/actionlink-htmlattributes).

I know that I can just as well write the HTML elements by hand or wrap the form inside a `&lt;div class=&quot;myClass&quot;&gt;`, but I&#39;d still be interested to know how it is supposed to be done. 

How can I add a class attribute to an HTML element generated by MVC&#39;s HTML Helpers?

Is it possible to display a view from another controller?

Say for example I have a `CategoriesController` and a `Category/NotFound.aspx` view. While in the `CategoriesController`, I can easly return `View(&quot;NotFound&quot;)`.

Now say I have a `ProductsController` and an action and view to add a product. However, this action requires that we have a Category to add the Product to. For example, `Products/Add/?catid=10`.

If I am not able to find the Category based on `catid`, I want to show the `NotFound` view from the Categories controller instead of creating a `CategoryNotFound` view under the Products controller.

Is this possible or am I structuring things in the wrong way? Is there a good way to do this?


Display a view from another controller in ASP.NET MVC

I&#39;m using a jQuery tip plugin to show help tips when the user hovers certain elements of the page.

I need to register the plugin events after the page is loaded using css selectors.

The problem is I&#39;m using an ASP.NET Update Panel and after the first postback, the tips stop working because the update panel replaces the page content but doesn&#39;t rebind the javascript events.

I need a way to execute a javascript callback after the Update Panel refreshes its content, so I can rebind the javascript events to have the tips working again.

Is there any way to do this?

How to have a javascript callback executed after an update panel postback?

I have a simple key/value list in JSON being sent back to ASP.NET via POST. Example:

    { &quot;key1&quot;: &quot;value1&quot;, &quot;key2&quot;: &quot;value2&quot;}

**I AM NOT TRYING TO DESERIALIZE INTO STRONGLY-TYPED .NET OBJECTS**

I simply need a plain old **Dictionary(Of String, String)**, or some equivalent (hash table, Dictionary(Of String, Object), old-school StringDictionary--hell, a 2-D array of strings would work for me.

I can use anything available in ASP.NET 3.5, as well as the popular Json.NET (which I&#39;m already using for serialization **to** the client).

Apparently neither of these JSON libraries have this forehead-slapping obvious capability out of the box--they are totally focused on reflection-based deserialization via strong contracts.

Any ideas?

Limitations:

 1. I don&#39;t want to implement my own JSON parser
 2. Can&#39;t use ASP.NET 4.0 yet
 3. Would prefer to stay away from the older, deprecated ASP.NET class for JSON

How can I deserialize JSON to a simple Dictionary&lt;string,string&gt; in ASP.NET?

While debugging jQuery apps that use AJAX, I often have the need to see the json that is being returned by the service to the browser.  So I&#39;ll drop the URL for the JSON data into the address bar.

This is nice with ASPNET because in the event of a coding error, I can see the ASPNET diagostic in the browser: 

![alt text][1]

But when the server-side code works correctly and actually returns JSON, IE prompts me to download it, so I can&#39;t see the response. 

![alt text][2]

**Can I get IE to NOT do that, in other words, to just display it as if it were plain text?**

I know I could do this if I set the Content-Type header to be `text/plain`.  

But this is specifically an the context of an ASPNET MVC app, which sets the response automagically when I use JsonResult on one of my action methods.  Also I kinda want to keep the appropriate content-type, and not change it just to support debugging efforts.


  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/QGizC.png
  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/nWs43.png

How can I convince IE to simply display application/json rather than offer to download it?

How do I force full post-back from a button within an UpdatePanel?

I have an ASP.NET button that I need to disable after the user clicks it to prevent double-clicking.  Once the submit completes it has to be enabled again. Can anyone help me with this?

Disable asp.net button after click to prevent double clicking

I am try to use JQuery UI Dialog to replace the ugly `javascript:alert()` box.
In my scenario, I have a list of items, and next to each individual of them, I would have a &quot;delete&quot; button for each of them. 
the psuedo html setup will be something follows:

    &lt;ul&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;ITEM &lt;a href=&quot;url/to/remove&quot;&gt; &lt;span&gt;$itemId&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;ITEM &lt;a href=&quot;url/to/remove&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;$itemId&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;ITEM &lt;a href=&quot;url/to/remove&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;$itemId&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;

    &lt;div id=&quot;confirmDialog&quot;&gt;Are you sure?&lt;/div&gt;

In JQ part, on document ready, I would first setup the div to be a modal dialog with necessary button, and set those &quot;a&quot; to be firing to confirmation before to remove, like:

    $(&quot;ul li a&quot;).click(function() {
      // Show the dialog    
      return false; // to prevent the browser actually following the links!
    }


OK, here&#39;s the problem. during the init time, the dialog will have no idea who (item) will fire it up, and also the item id (!). How can I setup the behavior of those confirmation buttons in order to, if the user still choose YES, it will follow the link to remove it?

How to implement &quot;confirmation&quot; dialog in Jquery UI dialog?

I have created one GUI in which I have used a JFrame. How should I make it Modal?

How to make a JFrame Modal in Swing java

I want to pass values between two Forms (c#). How can I do it?

I have two forms: Form1 and Form2. 

Form1 contains one button. When I click on that button, Form2 should open and Form1 should be in inactive mode (i.e not selectable).

Form2 contains one text box and one submit button. When I type any message in Form2&#39;s text box and click the submit button, the Form2 should close and Form1 should highlight with the submitted value.

How can i do it? Can somebody help me to do this with a simple example.


Send values from one form to another form

Is there a default option to close a jQuery dialog by clicking somewhere on the screen instead of the close icon?

Close dialog on click (anywhere)

In a jquery modal dialog, is there a way to select a button as the default action (action to execute when the user presses enter)?

Example of jquery web site: 
[jquery dialog modal message][1]

In the example above the dialog closes when the user presses Esc. I would like the &quot;Ok&quot; button action to be called when the user presses Enter.


  [1]: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-message

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ASP.NET MVC modal dialog/popup best practice

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