As I am implementing a small application framework for my current project that is using ASP.NET MVC and Knockout JavaScript library, I had to rethink the approach to using anti forgery tokens. Any forgery tokens in ASP.NET MVC are designed to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks. Cross site scripting is number 2 on list of …
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I am trying to get up to speed with knockout.js. I am brining it into an MVC application. I am trying to reduce the amount of JavaScript our team has to write, especially in large, complicated screens. At the same time, I want to leverage the power of MVC views. Our application is using DataAnnotations, …
In this post I wanted to describe a solution to a specific problem I recently encountered. The problem is as following. I have a class with a set of dependent properties, such as start and end date or minimum / maximum numbers. I want to implement both client and server side validation in an MVC …
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I blogged a while back on shortcoming of getRowData function of jqGrid in edit mode. I also recently ran into an issue when getRowData was returning blank for a cell that contains select (dropdown) control in edit mode. So, I wrote a quick function that I wanted to post here to help others that handles …
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Today I was fighting with a very specific problem. I was working with jqGrid’s getRowData method. I was implementing batch save feature, where a user can edit some data in the grid, then hit Save button to send the data to the server. I set up a column (SortOrder) to be always editable to be …
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In this blog I am going to describe a pretty common problem that web applications have to deal with along with one way to solve this issue. Here is the issue at hand. Say, user pulled up an entry form and made some changes. Then the above mentioned user clicked browser back button, navigating away …
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I am using jqGrid in my current project, and I already blogged prior on how impressed I am with the functionality available in this control. I am using it in ASP.NET MVC application, but it can be used in any web app. One of the key features is that it supports ajax based asynchronous server …
This is something I researched recently while working on an ASP.NET MVC application. My goal was to localize JavaScript messages based on user preferences. In this post I am going to document the approach I settled on. I am going to test based on browser culture and also drive the application based on the same …