This is possible using the AcceptVerbs attribute. Its a bit more verbose but more flexible.

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get|HttpVerbs.Post)]
    public ActionResult SignIn()
    {
    }

More on [msdn][1].


  [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.acceptverbsattribute.aspx

Actions respond to both GETs and POSTs by default, so you don&#39;t have to specify anything:

    public ActionResult SignIn()
    {
        //how&#39;d we get here?
        string method = HttpContext.Request.HttpMethod;
        return View();
    }

Depending on your need you could still perform different logic depending on the HttpMethod by operating on the HttpContext.Request.HttpMethod value.

    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult SignIn()
    {
    }
    
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult SignIn(FormCollection form)
    {
    }

I&#39;ve searched on SO and found answers about Quartz.net. But it seems to be too big for my project. I want an equivalent solution, but simpler and (at best) in-code (no external library required). How can I call a method daily, at a specific time? 

I need to add some information about this:

- the simplest (and ugly) way to do this, is check the time every second/minute and call the method, at right time

I want a more-effective way to do this, no need to check the time constantly, and I have control about whether the job is done a not. If the method fails (because of any problems), the program should know to write to log/send a email. That&#39;s why I need to call a method, not schedule a job.

I found this solution https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2331736/call-a-method-at-fixed-time-in-java in Java. Is there a similar way in C#?

EDIT: I&#39;ve done this. I added a parameter into void Main(), and created a bat (scheduled by Windows Task Scheduler) to run the program with this parameter. The program runs, does the job, and then exits. If a job fails, it&#39;s capable of writing log and sending email. This approach fits my requirements well :)


How to call a method daily, at specific time, in C#?

There are two ways to increase the usefulness of debugging information instead of seeing `{MyNamespace.MyProject.MyClass}` in the debugger. 

These are the use of [`DebuggerDisplayAttribute`][1] and the `ToString()` method.

    using System.Diagnostics;
    ...

    [DebuggerDisplay(&quot;Name = {Name}&quot;)]
    public class Person
    {
        public string Name;
    }

or 

    public class Person
    {
        public string Name;
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return string.Format(&quot;Name = {0}&quot;, Name);
        }
    }


Is there any reason to prefer one to the other? Any reason not to do both? Is it purely personal preference?


  [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.debuggerdisplayattribute

C# debugging: [DebuggerDisplay] or ToString()?

I&#39;d like to have a single action respond to both Gets as well as Posts. I tried the following 

    [HttpGet]
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult SignIn()

That didn&#39;t seem to work. Any suggestions ?

GET and POST to same Controller Action in ASP.NET MVC

I'd like to have a single action respond to both Gets as well as Posts. I tried the following
<pre><code class="hljs language-csharp">[HttpGet]
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SignIn()
</code></pre>
That didn't seem to work. Any suggestions ?

I have read the previous posts about using the RequireHttpsAttribute to secure individual controllers:

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639707/asp-net-mvc-requirehttps-in-production-only][1]

but is there a way to apply this to the entire site? Due to my host (discountasp.net) I cannot use the &quot;RequireSSL IIS&quot; setting.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639707/asp-net-mvc-requirehttps-in-production-only

MVC RequireHttps entire site

Can Anyone tell me the difference between `window.location.href` and `top.location.href` ?

And also where to use which one. 

And which one will be better when redirecting after an ajax call in mvc?

Difference between window.location.href and top.location.href

I would like to specify that a decimal field for a price must be &gt;= 0 but I don&#39;t really want to impose a max value.

Here&#39;s what I have so far...I&#39;m not sure what the correct way to do this is.

    [Range(typeof(decimal), &quot;0&quot;, &quot;??&quot;] public decimal Price { get; set; }

How to specify a min but no max decimal using the range data annotation attribute?

I am a Java developer, new to .NET. I am working on a .NET MVC2 project where I want to have a partial view to wrap a widget. Each JavaScript widget object has a JSON data object that would be populated by the model data. Then methods to update this data are bound to events when data is changed in the widget or if that data is changed in another widget.

The code is something like this:

`MyController`:

    virtual public ActionResult DisplaySomeWidget(int id) {
      SomeModelView returnData = someDataMapper.getbyid(1);

      return View(myview, returnData);
    }

`myview.ascx`:

    &lt;%@ Control Language=&quot;C#&quot; Inherits=&quot;System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl&lt;SomeModelView&gt;&quot; %&gt;
    
    &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
      //creates base widget object;
      var thisWidgetName = new Widget();

      thisWidgetName.updateTable = function() {
        //  UpdatesData
      };
      $(document).ready(function () {
        thisWidgetName.data = &lt;% converttoJSON(model) %&gt;
        $(document).bind(&#39;DATA_CHANGED&#39;, thisWidgetName.updateTable());
      });
    &lt;/script&gt;

    &lt;div&gt;&lt;%:model.name%&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

What I don’t know is how to send the data over as `SomeModelView` and then be able to use that to populate the widget as well as convert that to JSON. I had seen some real simple ways to do it in the controller but not in the view. I figure this is a basic question but I’ve been going for a few hours trying to make this slick.

How to convert View Model into JSON object in ASP.NET MVC?

I was wondering what, if it is possible, is the best way to render a partial using the new razor view engine. I understand this is something that wasn&#39;t finished completely by the time




Right now I am using RenderPage to render the user control:

    @RenderPage(&quot;~/Views/Shared/LocaleUserControl.cshtml&quot;,ViewData.Model)

The page calling RenderPage uses a layout (master) page with three sections defined: TitleContent, HeadContent and Maincontent. When I attempt to render my locale control from this page it appears that these sections are also required - they should only be required in the calling page and are present. I receive the following message, regardless of whether or not I include the sections in my partial view (obviously I dont want to include these sections but it seemed like an interesting debugging point...). 

&gt; The following sections have been
&gt; defined but have not been rendered on
&gt; the layout page
&gt; &#39;~/Views/Shared/LocaleUserControl.cshtml&#39;:
&gt; TitleContent; HeadContent; MainContent


My partial view is as follows (adapted from the following [link][1]):

    @inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage&lt;LocaleBaseModel&gt;
    @using System.Web.UI;
    
    &lt;p&gt;
         @Html.LabelFor(model =&gt; Model.CountryName)
        &lt;br /&gt;
        @Html.DropDownListFor(model =&gt; Model.CountryName,null, string.Empty, new { @class = &quot;text&quot;, accesskey=&quot;u&quot;})
    &lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;
         @Html.LabelFor(model =&gt; Model.StateProvince)
        &lt;br /&gt;
         @Html.DropDownListFor(model =&gt; Model.StateProvince, null, string.Empty, new { @class = &quot;text&quot;, accesskey=&quot;t&quot; })
    &lt;/p&gt;
    
    
    &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
        $(function () {
            var countries = $(&quot;#CountryName&quot;);
            var statesprovinces = $(&quot;#StateProvince&quot;);
            countries.change(function () {
                statesprovinces.find(&#39;option&#39;).remove();
                var url = &#39;@Url.Action(&quot;GetStatesProvinces&quot;, &quot;Base&quot;)&#39;;
                $.getJSON(url, { countryId: countries.val() }, function (data) {
                    $(data).each(function () {
                        $(&quot;&lt;option value=&quot; + this.ID + &quot;&gt;&quot; + this.Name + &quot;&lt;/option&gt;&quot;).appendTo(statesprovinces);
                    });
                });
            });
        });
    &lt;/script&gt;

  [1]: http://www.schnieds.com/2010/01/aspnet-mvc-locale-user-control.html

Razor view engine - How can I add Partial Views

Wanting to create custom data annotation validation. Are there any useful guides / samples on how to create them?

Firstly:  
StringLength with minimum and maximum length. I&#39;m aware .NET 4 can do this, but want to do the same in .NET 3.5, if possible being able to define minimum length only (at least x chars), maximum length only (up to x chars), or both (between x and y chars).

Secondly:  
Validation using modulus arithmetic - if the number is a valid length, I wish to validate using the Modulus 11 algorithm (I have already implemented it in JavaScript, so I guess it would just be a simple porting?)

**Update:**  
Solved second problem, was just a case of copying over the JavaScript implementation and making a few tweaks, so don&#39;t need a solution for that.

How to create Custom Data Annotation Validators

My organization currently delivers a web application primarily based on a SQL Server 2005/2008 back end, a framework of Java models/controllers, and ColdFusion-based views.  We have decided to transition to a newer framework and after internal explorations and mini projects have narrowed the choice down to between Python and C#/.NET.

Let me start off by saying that **I realize either technology will work great, and am looking for the key differentiators (and associated pros and cons)**  These languages have a lot in common, and a lot not--I&#39;m looking for your take on their key differences.

*Example tradeoff/differentiator I am looking for:*

While it seems you can accomplish more with less code and be more creative with Python, since .NET is more structured it may be easier to take over understanding and modifying code somebody else wrote.

*Some extra information that may be useful:*

Our engineering team is about 20 large and we work in small teams of 5-7 of which we rotate people in and out frequently.  We work on code that somebody else wrote as much as we write new code.

With python we would go the Django route, and with .NET we would go with MVC2.  Our servers are windows servers running IIS.

Some things we like about ColdFusion include that its very easy to work with queries and that we can &quot;hot-deploy&quot; fixes to our webservers without having to reboot them or interrupt anybody on them.


----------


I&#39;ve read some of the other X vs Y threads involving these two languages and found them very helpful, but would like to put Python head-to-head against .Net directly.  Thanks in advance for letting me tap your experiences for this difficult question!

Python vs C#/.NET -- what are the key differences to consider for using one to develop a large web application?

I have some doubts about how to concatenate MvcHtmlString instances because of this information found in [MSDN][1] :

&gt; **MvcHtmlString Class** Represents an HTML-encoded string that
&gt; should not be encoded again

Do I risk that strings are HTML-encoded twice when using code like this:

    var label = Html.LabelFor(model =&gt; model.Email);
    var textbox = Html.TextBoxFor(model =&gt; model.Email);
    var validation = Html.ValidationMessageFor(model =&gt; model.Email);

    var result = MvcHtmlString.Create(
      label.ToString() + textbox.ToString() + validation.ToString());

(note: this is supposed to go into an HtmlHelper extension method to reduce code-duplication in views).


  [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.mvchtmlstring.aspx

How to concatenate several MvcHtmlString instances

In ASP.NET MVC2 I use `OutputCache` and the `VaryByParam` attribute. I got it working fine with a single parameter, but what is the correct syntax when I have several parameters on the method?

&lt;!-- language: c# --&gt;

    [OutputCache(Duration=30, VaryByParam = &quot;customerId&quot;]
    public ActionResult Index(int customerId)
    {
    //I&#39;ve got this one under control, since it only has one parameter
    }

    [OutputCache(Duration=30, VaryByParam = &quot;customerId&quot;]
    public ActionResult Index(int customerId, int languageId)
    {
    //What is the correct syntax for VaryByParam now that I have a second parameter?
    }

How do I get it to cache the pages using both parameters? Do I enter add the attribute twice? Or write &quot;customerId, languageId&quot; as the value??


How do I use VaryByParam with multiple parameters?

I&#39;ve had it suggested to me that I should use FileResult to allow users to download files from my Asp.Net MVC application. But the only examples of this I can find always has to do with image files (specifying content type image/jpeg). 

But what if I can&#39;t know the file type? I want users to be able to download pretty much any file from the filearea of my site.

I had read one method of doing this (see a [previous post][1] for the code), that actually works fine, except for one thing: the name of the file that comes up in the Save As dialog is concatenated from the file path with underscores (folder_folder_file.ext). Also, it seems people think I should return a FileResult instead of using this custom class that I had found BinaryContentResult.

Anyone know the &quot;correct&quot; way of doing such a download in MVC?

EDIT:
I got the answer (below), but just thought I should post the full working code if someone else is interested:

    public ActionResult Download(string filePath, string fileName)
    {
        string fullName = Path.Combine(GetBaseDir(), filePath, fileName);

        byte[] fileBytes = GetFile(fullName);
        return File(
            fileBytes, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet, fileName);
    }

    byte[] GetFile(string s)
    {
        System.IO.FileStream fs = System.IO.File.OpenRead(s);
        byte[] data = new byte[fs.Length];
        int br = fs.Read(data, 0, data.Length);
        if (br != fs.Length)
            throw new System.IO.IOException(s);
        return data;
    }

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3597179/file-download-in-asp-net-mvc-2


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