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How to use AdditionalMetadata attribute in MVC to pass additional model metadata AdditionalMetadata attribute is very useful to pass additional data to the view from model without using additional properties. Below example we can see how to use AdditionalMetadata attribute to pass additional data to view. First create an MVC application In this default application we already…
How to create custom validation attribute in ASP.NET MVC Data annotation attributes are heavily used in MVC data validations when posting or entering the data into the forms. MVC has many inbuilt data annotation attributes and we can use them for our validations. But sometimes we have to write our own validations for the form…
How to download base64 data as file in ASP.NET MVC Sometimes we have to use base64 data and download that data as a file. If you have come across this as a challenge, then you can follow this article to get rid of your headache. So what is base64 ? Base64 is a group of similar…
How to upload files in ASP.NET MVC In a previous article we already discussed about how to do a file download in ASP.NET MVC. Now lets see how to upload files with MVC. For this Im using an example of very simple user registration form with a profile picture upload. First I have added a…
How to post form data to controller using Ajax in ASP.NET MVC (using Jason form serialization) Sometimes we have to use ajax post to send the data from the view to controller. In this article I’m going to create a simple data entry form and post form data to the controller action. Below is the…
How to add custom script files to your project. Writing inline javascripts is not a good practice when it comes to larger projects and its always recommend to use separate scripts files(custom script file (s)) for bigger scripts. Adding a custom script is not much complicated in ASP.NET MVC but still we have to follow some…
How to create and download CSV files in ASP.NET MVC Sometimes we have to create csv(comma separated) data files from our web applications and let the end user to download csv files. In ASP.NET MVC its not a much complicated issue. We can read whatever the data from a database, service or from another file…
ASP .NET model data binding with object lists In this example we are going to retrieve a list of objects from the front end to controller. We know how to bind a single object into the form and retrieve object data in form submission. Its very simple and we can accomplish that using the DefaultModelBinder in ASP.NET…