Questions tagged [webforms-view-engine]
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.NET "code nugget blocks"?
So in .NET we have...
<%=
<%: (new to .NET 4 - syntactic sugar for HTML encoding)
<%#
<%@
What exactly are these?
And are there more? Is there an exhaustive list of these and what they are anywhere? It's hard to know what to even search for -…

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Add CSS references to page's from a partial view
Is there a way to add CSS references to a page from a partial view, and have them render in the page's (as required by the HTML 4.01 spec)?

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What does <%# "whatever" %> mean in ASP.NET?
Possible Duplicate:
Meaning of the various symbols in .aspx page of asp.net
I'm familiar with <%= "whatever" %> as a shortcut for <% Response.Write("whatever"); %>.
But I've recently come across some code that uses <%# %> instead. In this…

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Razor view Type does not inherit from 'System.Web.WebPages.WebPage'
I have a problem with configuring asp.net mvc application:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Type 'ASP._Page_Currency_Index_cshtml' does not inherit from…

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How to render an ASP.NET MVC ViewResult to HTML?
In a testing situation, I'd like to be able to use the default viewEngine to render a given ViewResult to HTML.
Currently, my views are WebForms-based. But I might have Spark or Razor views at some point. For now, I'd like to focus on WebForms. Can…

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Is it possible to reuse partial views on multiple projects in ASP.NET MVC?
I know ASP.NET MVC 3 doesn't support area reuse, which would be very handy for, say, user admin areas of web applications, but how about partial views?
Say I have Pager "control" as a Razor (or WebFormViewEngine, it doesn't matter) partial view…

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Is it worth migrating an existing asp.net-mvc project with webform view engine to razor?
I have a large asp.net-mvc web site . I recently upgraded to MVC 4 but one thing i am debating is it worth it to migrate to razor engine. I see there are tools to "auto" upgrade but i am trying to figure out if its worth the migration pain. I…

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In ASP.NET MVC what are the differences between "<%=", "<%:" "<%#"
I've tried to perform a search on the above query but probably due to the angle brackets, I didn't find anything on the matter.
Could anyone please explain what the differences are between <%=, <%: <%#?
I seem to recall that <%# is preferred over…

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How does <%$ %> and <%# %> work in ASP.NET?
I was using ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC for some period of time.
So <%= %> in views mean Response.Write(), <%: %> introduced in MVC adds html escaping.
In SqlDataSource control designer generates something like this ConnectionString="<%$…

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foreach GetEnumerator error when converting to Razor syntax
I'm currently in the process of converting the MVC 2 portion of a hybrid Web Forms/MVC 2 application to MVC 3 (I'm not familiar with Web Forms or MVC 2) and have been encountering some problems with some of the foreach statements (which work fine in…

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Choice of View Engines in MVC4?
I am developing a mobile application using ASP.Net MVC4.0, JQuery Mobile, HTML5.
As I am new to ASP.Net MVC, I am not sure whether to use Razor(.cshtml) or webForm(.aspx) view engine.
Can anyone suggest which view engine I can use to develop a…

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HttpHandler for Asp.NET MVC application
For general ASP.NET WebForms applications, the web page derives from Page class which implements IHttpHandler that servers actual web request.
In ASP.NET MVC the webpage base class is System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage that also derives from Page class which…

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ASP.net MVC 3 can i replace all <%= in my views with <%:?
i have an MVC 3 site using asp.net 4
in my views i have used <%= for outputting data.
reading this post by phil haack -> http://haacked.com/archive/2009/09/25/html-encoding-code-nuggets.aspx
He suggests that <%= should be a distant memory, as long…

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Theme support for ASP.NET MVC 1, getting view masters name
currently I'm developing on an older ASP.NET MVC 1 Application, to add theme support. I've looked around the web and was able to build my own ViewEngine which works quit nice so far. Only one problem is banging my had.
I've overwritten following…

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What is the correct syntax to render an HTML img tag in ASP.NET MVC 2?

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