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Asynchronous Controllers in ASP.Net MVC 4.0

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://0.0.7.222/05/asynchronous-controllers-in-aspnet-mvc.html" target="_blank">Asynchronous Controller</a> is the feature added in ASP.Net MVC 4.0 which enables to write the asynchronous action methods. Asynchronous controller allows an operation to get performed without making the working thread idle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When an asynchronous action is invoked, the following steps occur:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Web server gets a thread from the thread pool (the worker thread) and schedules it to handle an incoming request. This worker thread initiates an asynchronous operation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The worker thread is returned to the thread pool to service another Web request.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the asynchronous operation is complete, it notifies ASP.NET.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Web server gets a worker thread from the thread pool (which might be a different thread from the thread that started the asynchronous operation) to process the remainder of the request, including rendering the response.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Synchronous operation , the working thread is dedicated to the single operation and even if the thread is idle (eg: waiting for the response from server , or for some I/O or network operation required to complete the desired operation) the working thread cannot be involved to serve some other process. In Asynchronous operation this working thread can be used to serve other process or operation. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So now comes the question , when to use Synchronous Controller and when to use Asynchronous controller in ASP.Net MVC 4.0 ?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In general, use synchronous pipelines when the following conditions are true:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The operations are simple or short-running.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Efficiency is secondary concern.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The operations are primarily CPU operations instead of operations that involve extensive disk or network overhead.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While it will be better to use Asynchronous controller if following conditions hold true:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The operations are network-bound or I/O-bound instead of CPU-bound.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Testing shows that the blocking operations are a bottleneck in site performance and that IIS can service more requests by using asynchronous action methods for these blocking calls.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parallelism is more important than simplicity of code.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You want to provide a mechanism that lets users cancel a long-running request.</span></li>
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Converting Synchronous Action Methods to Asynchronous Action Methods</span></h2>
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Following is the example of synchronous action method and the its asynchronous equivalent version.</div>
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 <span style="color: purple;">public class TestController : Controller</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">        public ActionResult Index()</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">            return View();</span></div>
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<i>Asynchronous variant of above operation:</i></div>
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 <span style="color: purple;">public class TestController : AsyncController</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">        public void IndexAsync()</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">           // Some processing</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span>public ActionResult IndexCompleted()</span></div>
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<li>Synchronous Controllers are the classes derived from the Controller class to implement an AsyncController instead of deriving the controller from Controller, derive it from AsyncController class. Controllers that derive from AsyncController enable ASP.NET to process asynchronous requests, and they can still service synchronous action methods.</li>
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<li>Corresponding to the synchronous action method in Synchronous controller you need to create two methods for the action in asynchronous controller.First method that initiates the asynchronous process must have a name that consists of the action and the suffix "Async". The other method that is invoked when the asynchronous process finishes (the callback method) must have a name that consists of the action and the suffix "Completed".</li>
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In the above sample example, the Index action has been turned into two methods in asynchronous controller: <i><b>IndexAsync </b></i>and <i><b>IndexCompleted</b></i>.</div>
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The IndexAsync method returns void while the IndexCompleted method returns an ActionResult instance. Although the action consists of two methods, it is accessed using the same URL as for a synchronous action method (for example, Controller/Index).</div>
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The parameters that are passed to IndexAsync use the normal parameter binding mechanisms. The parameters that are passed to IndexCompleted use the Parameters dictionary.</div>
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Note the following about asynchronous action methods:</div>
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If the action name is <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">Sample</span>, the framework will look for <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">SampleAsync</span> and <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">SampleCompleted</span> methods.</div>
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View pages should be named Sample.aspx rather than SampleAsync.aspx or SampleCompleted.aspx. (The action name is <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">Sample</span>, not <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">SampleAsync</span>.)</div>
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A controller cannot contain an asynchronous method named <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">SampleAsync</span> and a synchronous method named <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">Sample</span>. If it does, an <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.ambiguousmatchexception(v=vs.98).aspx" style="color: #03697a; text-decoration: none;">AmbiguousMatchException</a> exception is thrown because the <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">SampleAsync</span> action method and the <span class="code" style="color: darkgreen;">Sample</span> action method have the same request signature.</div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Reference: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee728598(v=vs.98).aspx#how_requests_are_processed_by_the_thread_pool" target="_blank">MSDN</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this post I am going to write the points about the three type of the <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">var</span>iable <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Object</span>, <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Var</span> and Dynamic. Most of the developer not able to get what is <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">difference</span> between this three kind of <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">var</span>iable.</span></div>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Object</span></span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dynamic</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Var</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Can able to store any kind of value, because <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">object</span> is the base class of all type in .net framework.</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Can able to store any type of the <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">var</span>iable, similar to old VB language <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">var</span>iable.</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Can able to store any type of value but it require to initialize at the time of declaration.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNeTs1EpDXssAjZGh53c6Fwh2Sd1M3KDOzR2pL_BideMheAMaInT5ByEA__YawZCoBFOqi_ZiBgrrh3qxv0khn9Lyc7pw3L0j_b-ze0EpGIZrsDdMWAdxnxH3NIZTmZPKrRvU9kpgwq1_/s1600/var+inialize+error.JPG" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNeTs1EpDXssAjZGh53c6Fwh2Sd1M3KDOzR2pL_BideMheAMaInT5ByEA__YawZCoBFOqi_ZiBgrrh3qxv0khn9Lyc7pw3L0j_b-ze0EpGIZrsDdMWAdxnxH3NIZTmZPKrRvU9kpgwq1_/s320/var+inialize+error.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" t="" true="" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Compiler has little information about the type<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmDacPcHcvdx3j8T-NHOf8s6zpRDKc820a-HqPHKf4_fbWkeQmqsXHrgg48dzS38kiUNx9DOd3fEOhPqAIXxaREofW34GxYdrddGqAX5RW2E5f9im0pjFvZgUXMOmNHNlD0JkH48isKi9/s1600/object.JPG" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="44" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmDacPcHcvdx3j8T-NHOf8s6zpRDKc820a-HqPHKf4_fbWkeQmqsXHrgg48dzS38kiUNx9DOd3fEOhPqAIXxaREofW34GxYdrddGqAX5RW2E5f9im0pjFvZgUXMOmNHNlD0JkH48isKi9/s200/object.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" t="" true="" width="200" /></a></span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Compiler doesn't have any information about the this type of <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">var</span>iable.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKa4vWKJEFZspot_TkLHL6JqCK9CQmCdfvkcl6SeVf4pE3fRAGFOLWsEK7LbCPgNIw5OVGhV4zdI87Ap3Gp7fl662KfbecH2pj6K5vuOEtGhHpDbmvHTiJltNji138zIUToyx3IhVOGmYW/s1600/dynamic.JPG" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKa4vWKJEFZspot_TkLHL6JqCK9CQmCdfvkcl6SeVf4pE3fRAGFOLWsEK7LbCPgNIw5OVGhV4zdI87Ap3Gp7fl662KfbecH2pj6K5vuOEtGhHpDbmvHTiJltNji138zIUToyx3IhVOGmYW/s200/dynamic.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" t="" true="" width="200" /></a></span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's compiler safe i.e compiler has all information about the stored value, so that it doesn't cause any issue at run-time.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4wCDo772yFcHN2WGnUcPMAoQ_h2Rk2xhHVmzBkUeuo8lwa_sh_uCN3WWksVzZi1GCQ7g1miUiLpXK8rNqJJzLrBon6Vvkw_52noMJEYV0nOpebX79EsTZY-oHkzl9xHx2EenTaBk77MnG/s1600/var+compiler.JPG" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4wCDo772yFcHN2WGnUcPMAoQ_h2Rk2xhHVmzBkUeuo8lwa_sh_uCN3WWksVzZi1GCQ7g1miUiLpXK8rNqJJzLrBon6Vvkw_52noMJEYV0nOpebX79EsTZY-oHkzl9xHx2EenTaBk77MnG/s200/var+compiler.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" t="" true="" width="200" /></a></span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Require to cast <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">object</span> <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">var</span>iable to original type before using it. So this assigning to <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">object</span> type and converting to original type called as Boxing and Un-Boxing for value type and for the reference type its casting of types. It's actually increasing the overhead when we do this both operation.<br />Allows to perform operation of given type once it get cast any user defined or primitive data type.</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Casting is not require but you need to know the property and methods related to stored type</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">No need to cast because compiler has all information to perform operation.</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cause the problem at run time if the stored value is not get converted to underlying data type.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSJSX4QW6ZRH1vnZtH86OlpydmsHwm7qcNjYLcQX3rYxKsR6mVQtqCWNaMssrswSZZI7g9UUEKikpVt2ul8g7AaGtcLrvesZLtbxPJO7jlIuOQJHQFNzbOTKGVnSCkpaBep58dHwmfvT7/s1600/Object+error.JPG" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSJSX4QW6ZRH1vnZtH86OlpydmsHwm7qcNjYLcQX3rYxKsR6mVQtqCWNaMssrswSZZI7g9UUEKikpVt2ul8g7AaGtcLrvesZLtbxPJO7jlIuOQJHQFNzbOTKGVnSCkpaBep58dHwmfvT7/s200/Object+error.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" t="" true="" width="200" /></a></span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cause problem if the wrong method or property accessed because all the information about stored value is get resolve only at run time<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMRTQAbR7_Q9iQgbfyUAJTYoUFYDGeRW8u6h6LkvKYBuaThiZe6xptODQY4a-asKJFQRh5U_lQokFxd1NoptiBP9kh0dE9gAxIJls3xvFVdJMaH__gYPBHSlku89Gyh9BQ3P9AAhPZ0Sc/s1600/dynamic+error.JPG" style="border: 0px; color: purple; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMRTQAbR7_Q9iQgbfyUAJTYoUFYDGeRW8u6h6LkvKYBuaThiZe6xptODQY4a-asKJFQRh5U_lQokFxd1NoptiBP9kh0dE9gAxIJls3xvFVdJMaH__gYPBHSlku89Gyh9BQ3P9AAhPZ0Sc/s200/dynamic+error.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: auto; padding: 0px;" t="" true="" width="200" /></a></span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Doesn't cause problem because compiler has all info about stored value.</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Useful when doesn't have more information about the data type.</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Useful when coding using reflection or dynamic language support or with the COM <span class="search-highlight" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">object</span>s, because we require to write less amount of code.</span></td><td style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Useful when getting result out of the linq queries. In 3.5 framework it introduce to support linq feature.<br /></span></td></tr>
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Reference : <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/233553/Difference-between-Object-Dynamic-and-Var">Code Project</a></div>

Difference between var , object and dynamic variable in C#

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Captcha image issue on Register page in YAF (Yet Another Forum) integrated in ASP.Net MVC

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I was trying to embed <a href="http://yetanotherforum.net/">YAF (Yet Another Forum)</a> in my MVC project. Everything was working fine except the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Captcha </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> image which YAF use to show on their Register Page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Captcha image was not showing on the Register Page. <i>See below image:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The issue was quiet confusing as everything was working fine when I embedded the same project with ASP.Net Web forms website , but the Captcha image was not coming after embedding YAF in ASP.NET MVC project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After right clicking on the Image (to get Image URL) I found that this image was using some resource 'Resource.ashx' as its URL to show image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After going through the <a href="http://yafnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/72897">YAF code (YAF is open source)</a> I found that YAF team has developed their own custom HttpHandler with name <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><i>'YAF.YafResourceHandler'</i> </span></span>which handles all the request ending in 'Resource.ashx'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://counsellingbyabhi.blogspot.com/2013/02/creating-synchronous-http-handler.html">See here how to develop your own custom HttpHandler and register that handler.</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here was the main flaw in the complication. Since in MVC '<a href="http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/older-versions/controllers-and-routing/asp-net-mvc-routing-overview-cs">url routing</a>' is used which was restricting this <span style="color: red;">resource.ashx </span>request to be processed by server.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So , to enable </span><i style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YAF.YafResourceHandler </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to process the resource.ashx request (resource used by the captcha image) , we have to specify its URL as ignoreURL in MVC which can be dome as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.) Go to your MVC application <i><span style="color: red;">Route.config </span></i>file and add following line </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">        <i style="color: red;">  routes.IgnoreRoute("Resource.ashx"); </i>in RegisterRoutes Function.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.) The function will show now like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">      public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)</span></div>
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            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");</div>
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            routes.IgnoreRoute("Resource.ashx");</div>
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               routes.MapRoute(</div>
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                name: "Default",</div>
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                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",</div>
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                defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id =   </div>
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               UrlParameter.Optional }</div>
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            );</div>
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        }</div>
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Ignoring this url by MVC framework will enable the 'Resource.ashx' request to be handled by the custom HttpHandler (<i style="background-color: white; color: red;">YAF.YafResourceHandler) </i><span style="background-color: white;">and hence the image will start to shown on the register page.</span></div>
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Hope this will help. <i><span style="color: red;">Happy coding.</span></i></div>
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Calling Controllers method from Javascript / Jquery in ASP.Net MVC

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following is the next post in the <a href="http://counsellingbyabhi.blogspot.in/search/label/Programming">Programming </a>section of this blog and 2nd post in <a href="http://counsellingbyabhi.blogspot.in/search/label/ASP.Net%20MVC">MVC </a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red;">Scenario : </span></i>While working in my first MVC project , I was trying  to add functionality in a menu embedded in MVC View (city.cshtml). The view was having details of a particular city and in menu there were certain menu items like 'CRIME' , 'WEATHER' etc for that City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the menu item clicked , there was need of some server side processing and according to that processing result , I had to show some information in the left side panel keeping the whole View (page) intact means I didn't want to refresh whole of the View. So one of the several approaches can be to call controller method (server side processing) via javascript or Jquery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">AIM: Calling controllers method using Jquery / Javascript </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following is the Controller method to be called returning an array of some class objects. Let the class is 'A'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: red;"><i>public JsonResult SubMenu_Click(string param1, string param2)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i>        {</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i>           A[] arr = null;</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>            try</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>            {</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>                Processing...</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>               Get Result and fill arr.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>            }</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>            catch { }</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>            return Json(</i></span><i style="color: red;">arr </i><span style="color: red;"><i>, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>        }</i></span><br />
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Following is the complex type (class)<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>   public class A</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>   {</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="color: red;"><i>    public string property1 {get ; set ;}</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span>
<i style="color: red;">    public string property2 {get ; set ;}</i><br />
<span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="color: red;"><i>   }</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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Now it was turn to call above controller method by JQUERY. Following is the Jquery function to call the controller method.</div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">function callControllerMethod(value1 , value2) {</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">        var strMethodUrl = '@Url.Action("SubMenu_Click", "Home")?param1=</span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">value1 </span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">&param2=</span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">value2</span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">        $.getJSON(strMethodUrl, receieveResponse);</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">    }</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  function receieveResponse(response) {</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">        if (response != null) {</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">            for (var i = 0; i < response.length; i++) {</span></i></div>
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               alert(response[i].property1);</div>
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            }</div>
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        }</div>
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    }</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the above Jquery function '</span><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">callControllerMethod' </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we develop controller method url  and put that in a variable named 'strMehodUrl' and call getJSON method of Jquery API.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">receieveResponse </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is the callback function receiving the response or return value of the controllers method. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we made use of JSON , since we can't make use of the C# class object</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">directly into the javascript function , so we converted the result (</span><i style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">arr</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) in controller method into JSON object as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> Json(</i></span><i style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">arr </i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and returned that Json object.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now in callback function of the <a href="http://counsellingbyabhi.blogspot.in/search/label/JQuery">Javascript / JQuery</a> we can make use of this resultant <a href="http://counsellingbyabhi.blogspot.com/2013/02/json-javascript-object-notation.html">JSON</a> object and work accordingly to show response data on UI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope this will help. <i>Happy Coding.</i></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://counsellingbyabhi.blogspot.in/2013/01/jquery-examples-1.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JQuery and Javascript examples</a></li>
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ASP.NET MVC – Multiple Button Actions in the same form.

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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of the very general problem developers face when
they start working over MVC.  How to call
multiple actions or how to handle multiple button clicks on a form in MVC.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Scenario<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine you have a user signup form.
There are several textbox fields for entering the new account information and
then two buttons: Signup and Cancel. Signup will process the account
information and Cancel will return the user to the home page. In this case we
have more than one button on the same form. There my be some other cases as
well. Here I am presenting a very simple example to handle such situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Solution 1 – Each button submits
the form but provides a different value</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Imagine we have a form and a student
model class as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">  
public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> <span style="color: blue;">class</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">Student</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">    {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        [<span style="color: #2b91af;">Required</span>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;">public</span> <span style="color: blue;">string</span>
StudentID { <span style="color: blue;">get</span>; <span style="color: blue;">set</span>;
}<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;">public</span> <span style="color: blue;">string</span>
StudentName { <span style="color: blue;">get</span>; <span style="color: blue;">set</span>;
}<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">    }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On our view we have two fields – one for <b>student
id</b> and other for <b>Student Name</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we have two buttons on this page. Let the name
of first button is ‘<b>Submit 1</b>’ and
that of second is ‘<b>Submit 2</b>’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So first we develop the view for this scenario as
follows:</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Consolas;"><%</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> <span style="color: blue;">using</span>
(Html.BeginForm(<span style="color: #a31515;">"MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm"</span>,
<span style="color: #a31515;">" MultipleSubmitButtonsInFormController"</span>,
<span style="color: #2b91af;">FormMethod</span>.Post))<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">    { <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.AntiForgeryToken() <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.ValidationSummary(<span style="color: blue;">true</span>)
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">fieldset</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">legend</span><span style="color: blue;">></span>Log in Form<span style="color: blue;"></</span><span style="color: maroon;">legend</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">ol</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">               
<span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">li</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.LabelFor(m => m.StudentID) <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.StudentID) <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.StudentID) <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">               
<span style="color: blue;"></</span><span style="color: maroon;">li</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">               
<span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">li</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.LabelFor(m => m.StudentName) <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.PasswordFor(m => m.StudentName)<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span><span style="color: blue;">:</span> Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.StudentName)<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">               
<span style="color: blue;"></</span><span style="color: maroon;">li</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">              
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"></</span><span style="color: maroon;">ol</span><span style="color: blue;">><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">input</span> <span style="color: red;">type</span><span style="color: blue;">="submit"</span>
<span style="color: red;">name</span><span style="color: blue;">="submitButton"</span>
<span style="color: red;">value</span><span style="color: blue;">="Submit
1"</span> <span style="color: blue;">/></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">input</span> <span style="color: red;">type</span><span style="color: blue;">="submit"</span>
<span style="color: red;">name</span><span style="color: blue;">="submitButton"</span>
<span style="color: red;">value</span><span style="color: blue;">="Submit
2"</span> <span style="color: blue;">/></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;"></</span><span style="color: maroon;">fieldset</span><span style="color: blue;">></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">      <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">    <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><%</span> } <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">%><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This view will look like this :</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we can see that we have mentioned the same
name of two submit buttons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the line</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Consolas;"><%</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> <span style="color: blue;">using</span>
(Html.BeginForm(<span style="color: #a31515;">"MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm"</span>,
<span style="color: #a31515;">" MultipleSubmitButtonsInFormController "</span>,
<span style="color: #2b91af;">FormMethod</span>.Post))<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have defined the Action and Controller name. So
in our project we are having a Controller with name <span style="color: #a31515;">‘MultipleSubmitButtonsInFormController</span>’and
an Action with name <span style="color: #a31515;">MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm </span>in
that controller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now what we will do we will distinguish the two
buttons click in the action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The action body will look like as follows:</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">[<span style="color: #2b91af;">HttpPost</span>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;">public</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">ActionResult</span>
a(<span style="color: blue;">string</span> submitButton)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;">switch</span> (submitButton)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">               
<span style="color: blue;">case</span> <span style="color: #a31515;">"Submit
1"</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="color: blue;">return</span> (Submit_1());<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">               
<span style="color: blue;">case</span> <span style="color: #a31515;">"Submit
2"</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="color: blue;">return</span> (Submit_2());<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                <span style="color: blue;">default</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">                   
<span style="color: blue;">return</span> (View());<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we are having two functions which will be called
in accordance with the clicked button.</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">  <span style="color: blue;">private</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">ActionResult</span>
Submit_1()<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: green;">// process the cancellation request here.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;">return</span> (View(<span style="color: #a31515;">"MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm_2"</span>));<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;">private</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">ActionResult</span>
Submit_2()<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: green;">// perform the actual send operation here.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;">return</span> (View(<span style="color: #a31515;">"MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm_2"</span>));<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is clear from the action code that we
distinguish which button is clicked and use switch case to call the required functionality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Note: The name of two submit buttons and the
parameter name in the action should be same. See it in our example.</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><b>Buttons:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">input</span> <span style="color: red;">type</span><span style="color: blue;">="submit"</span>
<span style="color: red;">name</span><span style="color: blue;">="<b>submitButton</b>"</span> <span style="color: red;">value</span><span style="color: blue;">="Submit 1"</span>
<span style="color: blue;">/></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">            <span style="color: blue;"><</span><span style="color: maroon;">input</span> <span style="color: red;">type</span><span style="color: blue;">="submit"</span>
<span style="color: red;">name</span><span style="color: blue;">="<b>submitButton</b>"</span> <span style="color: red;">value</span><span style="color: blue;">="Submit 2"</span>
<span style="color: blue;">/><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><b>Action Signature<span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">        <span style="color: blue;">public</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">ActionResult</span>
MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm2(<span style="color: blue;">string</span> <b>submitButton</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this is the very general approach to handle the
situation of having more than one action on a form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
downside to this solution is that you have to add some yucky conditional logic
to your controller and all the form data has to be submitted to the server just
so the server can issue a redirect. To make the controller code a little better
you could implement a custom <b>ActionMethodSelectorAttribute</b>
like this:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">class</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> AcceptParameterAttribute : ActionMethodSelectorAttribute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">   {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">      </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">string</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> Name { </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">get</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">; </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">set</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">; }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">      </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">string</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> Value { </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">get</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">; </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">set</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">; }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">     </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">override</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">bool</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> IsValidForRequest(ControllerContext
controllerContext, MethodInfo methodInfo)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">      {<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">          var req =
controllerContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;">          </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">return</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> req.Form[</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">this</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">.Name] == </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">this</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">.Value;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">      }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;">  }<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I can
split into two action methods like this:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   [ActionName("</span><span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Consolas;">MultipleSubmitButtonsInForm_Click</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">")]<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   [AcceptParameter(Name</span><span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Consolas;">="submitButton</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">", Value="</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"> Submit 1</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">")]<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> ActionResult Submit1Action()<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   {<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">       </span><span style="color: green; font-family: Consolas;">// submit 1 functionality</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   }<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">   [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  [AcceptParameter(Name="</span><span style="color: #a31515; font-family: Consolas;">SubmitButton</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">", Value="</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"> Submit 2</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">")]<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">public</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> ActionResult Submit2Action()<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  {<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">    </span><span style="color: green; font-family: Consolas;">// submit 2 functionality</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  }<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Solution 2:<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"> All client side script</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h4>
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<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">   <</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">      </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">name</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"button"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Register</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">      </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">name</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"button"</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">type</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"button"</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">onclick</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"document.location.href=$('#cancelUrl').attr('href')"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Cancel</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">      </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">a</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">id</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"cancelUrl"</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">href</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"<%= Html.AttributeEncode(Url.Action("</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">Index</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">", "</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">Home</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">")) %>" </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">style</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"display:none;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">a</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the most efficient
way to handle the cancel button. There is no interaction with the server to get
the url to redirect to. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rendered a hidden </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">a</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> tag to contain the url
but still used the </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> and some script so that the cancel option
still looked like a button on the form. It would also work if I just displayed
the </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">a</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> tag instead of the button.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Solution 3:</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: normal;"> Option 2 – Using a  second
form</span><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  1: <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span> using (Html.BeginForm()) { <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  2:     </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">div</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  3:         </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">fieldset</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  4:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">legend</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Account Information</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">legend</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  5:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  6:                 </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">for</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"username"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Username:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  7:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.TextBox("username") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  8:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.ValidationMessage("username") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;">  9:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 10:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 11:                 </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">for</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"email"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Email:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 12:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.TextBox("email") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 13:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.ValidationMessage("email") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 14:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 15:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 16:                 </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">for</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"password"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Password:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 17:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.Password("password") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 18:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.ValidationMessage("password") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 19:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 20:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 21:                 </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">for</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"confirmPassword"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Confirm password:</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">label</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 22:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.Password("confirmPassword") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 23:                 <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span>= Html.ValidationMessage("confirmPassword") <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 24:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 25:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 26:                 </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">name</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"button"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Register</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 27:                 </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"><</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">name</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"button"</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">type</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"button"</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Consolas;">onclick</span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">=</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">"$('#cancelForm').submit()"></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;">Cancel</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">button</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 28:             </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">p</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 29:         </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">fieldset</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 30:     </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;"></</span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Consolas;">div</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Consolas;">></span><span style="font-family: Consolas;"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 31: <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span> } <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background: white; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #CECECE .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Consolas;"> 32: <span style="background: yellow;"><%</span> using (Html.BeginForm("Register_Cancel", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new {  id="cancelForm" })) {} <span style="background: yellow;">%></span><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">All I did here was add a new
form after the registration form and point it at my other controller action. I
then changed the cancel button to type=”button” so that it would try to submit
the form it was sitting in and added an onlick that uses a simple jQuery
expression to submit my other “cancel” form. This is more efficient now that it
wont submit all the registration data but it is still not the most efficient
since it is still using the server to do a redirect.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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