MVC is short for Model-View-Controller – an architectural pattern commonly used in software development. The pattern proposes the architecture of the application to be split in 3 different layers, separating user interface (View) from logic (Controller) and data (Model).
In this blog, it’s most commonly used in regards to ASP.NET MVC, which is Microsoft’s implementation of the pattern for their web development framework.
This post describes the easiest way to show description texts for properties in ASP.NET MVC 5. Sounds simple, right? We can use something like @Html.DescriptionFor(x => x.Property), right? Alas, it’s not that straightforward. A bit surprisingly, there’s no ready-made helper function for this. I’m saying “surprisingly”, because I feel like…Continue reading How to get the Description for a property in ASP.NET MVC 5?
Have you ever struggled to make your ASP.NET MVC views format your properties of type DateTime correctly? I have. And I’ve been shot in the leg by weird hacks made by both myself (just 6 months earlier) and someone else. .NET Date/DateTime formatting is an endless bag of funsies in…Continue reading How to format DateTimes in ASP.NET Core?
Are you getting duplicate object values (or whatever those Objects output in .ToString())? Eh, so was I, after I edited the display template for String. Found a fix, though. Description Okay – I just ran into one of my more stupid mistakes since.. Well, since forever. I had made some…Continue reading Duplicate object values in ASP.NET MVC Display Templates? Easy fix!
This post describes an issue with EF’s code-first migrations, when mapping between DB’s DateTime (datetime2) and C#’s DateTime simply fails, and results in the Update-Database cmdlet failing, too. It is more or less a prime example of a situation, where the error itself tells very little about the actual issue,…Continue reading Fixing “An error occurred while updating the entries” while running code-first migrations in MVC 5 app
