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How-to: Razor HtmlHelper Extensions (or other namespaces for views) Not Found #solution #development #dev

Razor HtmlHelper Extensions (or other namespaces for views) Not Found

Dunno if this was happening in the PR or Beta, but if I create an extension method on HtmlHelper, it is not recognized in a Razor powered page:

namespace SomeNamespace.Extensions { public static class HtmlExtensions { public static string Foo(this HtmlHelper html) { return "Foo"; } } }

I added it to the <Namespaces>section in

Fixed HTML.ActionLink method #dev #it #asnwer

HTML.ActionLink method

Let’s say I have a class

public class ItemController:Controller { public ActionResult Login(int id) { return View("Hi", id); } }

On a page that is not located at the Item folder, where ItemController resides, I want to create a link to the Login method. So which Html.ActionLink method I should use and what parameters should I pass?

Specifically, I am looking for the…

How to: Generate URL in HTML helper

Generate URL in HTML helper

Normally in an ASP.NET view one could use the following function to obtain a URL (not an <a>):

Url.Action("Action", "Controller");

However, I cannot find how to do it from a custom HTML helper. I have

public class MyCustomHelper { public static string ExtensionMethod(this HtmlHelper helper) { } }

The helper variable has the Action and GenerateLink methods, but they…

How to: How can I add a class attribute to an HTML element generated by MVC's HTML Helpers?

How can I add a class attribute to an HTML element generated by MVC’s HTML Helpers?

ASP.NET MVC can generate HTML elements using HTML Helpers, for example @Html.ActionLink(), @Html.BeginForm() and so on.

I know I can specify form attributes by creating an anonymous object and pass that object for the (fourth in this case) htmlAttributes parameter where specifying an id for the element:

Html.Begi…

How to set a default value with Html.TextBoxFor?

Simple question, if you use the Html Helper from ASP.NET MVC Framework 1 it is easy to set a default value on a textbox because there is an overload Html.TextBox(string name, object value). When I tried using the Html.TextBoxFor method, my first guess was to try the following which did not work:

x.Age, new { value = "0"}) %>

How to: Razor HtmlHelper Extensions (or other namespaces for views) Not Found

Razor HtmlHelper Extensions (or other namespaces for views) Not Found

Dunno if this was happening in the PR or Beta, but if I create an extension method on HtmlHelper, it is not recognized in a Razor powered page:

namespace SomeNamespace.Extensions { public static class HtmlExtensions { public static string Foo(this HtmlHelper html) { return "Foo"; } } }

I added it to the <Namespaces>section in

How to: HTML.ActionLink method

HTML.ActionLink method

Let’s say I have a class

public class ItemController:Controller { public ActionResult Login(int id) { return View("Hi", id); } }

On a page that is not located at the Item folder, where ItemController resides, I want to create a link to the Login method. So which Html.ActionLink method I should use and what parameters should I pass?

Specifically, I am looking for the…