A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client – error in MVC4 in vb.net

In your Create Actions in a Controller in MVC4, if you try to save text with html tags then you get this annoying error. A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client Description: ASP.NET has detected data in the request that is potentially dangerous because it might include HTML markup or script. The […]

c# How to get the UserID of logged in user in mvc5

Add the name space in your controller at the top using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity; Wherever you need to get the user id use the following code in your controller string userId = User.Identity.GetUserId();

How to fix : Ajax.BeginForm doing full postback instead of partial.

I realised that in my MVC5 project in Visual Studio I could not get the Ajax.BeginForm to work properly. It will always do a full postback. I was trying to complete a Video Rating Page, where there are buttons to rate a video and once the user presses one of the rating button, it […]

Password protect complete MVC4 site in VB.NET

If you want to password protect some pages on your MVC4 site using the Forms Authentication then it is best to to protect the whole site and then selectively allow Anonymous Access to the pages which are to be shown to every visitor. Open the FilterConfig.VB file and add the line filters.Add(New AuthorizeAttribute) in it […]

How to render @html.actionlink as a button in MVC in Razor

How to render @HTML.Actionlink in MVC and using it as a button Background of @HTML.ACTIONLINK in MVC The easiest way to render an HTML link in is to use the HTML.ActionLink() helper. With MVC, the Html.ActionLink() does not link to a view. It creates a link to a controller action. Razor Syntax: @Html.ActionLink(“About this Website”, […]

Implement PagedList in VB.NET MVC3 or MVC4

How to use Paging using the PagedList Once you have installed the PagedList package from NUGET Controller Add the following two imports at the top of the header Imports PagedList Imports PagedList.Mvc Your Linq or SQL query should be sorted eg. Dim v = (From vid In db.qry_Videos Where vid.CatID = […]

How to use Twitter Bootstrap button with @html.actionlink in mvc4 using vb.net

If you are using the Twitter Bootsrap in you MVC4 project and you have a need to display a boostrap button then here is a simple way to use it with the @html.actionlink @Html.ActionLink(“download”, “download”, New With {.rid = Model.RingID}, New With {.class = Html.Raw(“btn btn-primary btn-mini”)})

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