ASP.NET Page Validation required? - validation

How exactly do you handle items that are in the viewstate (so they are included on submit), but can also be changed via AJAX. For instance, say we had a dropdown list that was populated through an AJAX web service call (not an update panel). How can I get the page to validate once the dropdownlist's items have been changed?
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Attach or embed node add form with a view

I am using Drupal 7.54. I want to attach or embed a node add form to a view so that when a user submits the form, the view below the form will be updated in realtime via ajax. The form will be shown above the view. My view block name is Statuses Stream.
I tried Form block module and putting the form in the header section of my view using views ui, but after submit, it was redirecting to the node created page.
Then I tried Advanced Form Block module. I created a form using AFB module. The form name is Statuses. It is submitting the form with ajax, but it is not updating the view in the realtime. I have to refresh the page manually to show the created node below the form.
I am open to any solution programmatically or through a module.
Note: For those who know, I am trying to mimic the statuses module. It does exactly what I am looking for. The problem began when I came to know that it is not an entity. So now I am trying to make the same functionality with Content type.
You could use something like Views Refresh to manually update the view below instead of refreshing the page.

Is AJAX only for dynamic content or can it also create buttons, and change css properties?

I was wondering, is Ajax only for dynamic content update or can it also, say, create a few buttons in a given div depending on what action a user chooses in another div? For example, if the login page and first page look very similar by only a few buttons, once proper login credentials are entered, can I use Ajax to make the other three buttons appear once logged in properly, rather than going to a whole another web page that has those buttons hard coded in the html/css? If this is possible, I'll take pointers to any tutorials. Thanks.
AJAX is just for creating HTTP requests using javascript, in order to prevent full page requests.
What you can do is to process the login request using AJAX and then, depending on the response you send, to display an error or update the DOM with the logged in interface.
If you just want to change the DOM, you use javascript directly (jquery would help) but no AJAX is needed.

MVC 3. Load menu and content separately

I have an app with 3 sections:
Main menu;
Context Menu - Related to selected item in main menu;
and Page body - Related to selected item in context menu;
"Main menu" and "Context menu" are based on membership. I don't want to load them everytime my page loads, because that would consume resources database. So, I'm using ajax to load main menu only one time, and when an item is selected, I load the context menu for that item.
My problem is: Every form's post will erase my menu.
Question: Will I have to build my entire application using ajax? I don't wanna do that, because it is too much simpler do a post in the form then send all data to controller with ajax.
Until now, I have 2 options:
Load my menus with ajax and the page body with IFRAME, so the post's will not render again my menus.
Do everything using ajax;
Is there any alternative to load my menus with ajax and be able to use form's post?
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
The sentence that gave me a pause is this "I don't want to load them everytime my page loads, because that would consume resources database."
You see, I've build quite a lot of apps, that display menus and sub-menus based on user roles (what you called membership). This has never been an issue from the resources or database perspective.
You can access all the membership information that you need once, when your used is being logged in. In the simplest case user's identity will be stored in the context along with the roles they have (HttpContext.User), so you do not to need a database lookup at all to get this information on every request. Note that with this scenario no ajax is required either.
If for whatever reason you can't store your membership information in the context like this, you still can store in in session (if in-memory) or in encrypted Cookies.
Now, I understand, that I don't all the details of your scenario, and that may be in your scenario what you are trying to do is warranted, however I suggest you think it through again, as under normal circumstances what you indicate is a problem (database resource) should not be a problem at all.
The bottom line is: if you alter your application that it stores the membership information when user logs on you won't have your problem to start with.
You don’t have to build all of your application using Ajax. But in this scenario Ajax may be the best way forward.
Following is my suggestion
Create your data entry for inside a dev
Have each input controller marked with a class (say ‘dataEntry’)
Create a javascript function to iterate the dev and build a list of all elements that has class dataEntry
Build a json object using the list. Use the name of each element as property name and value as the property value
Use jquery ajax to post this to the controller action
[optional] you can use .done and .fail methods to take action on success or failures of the call
I know this may look intimidating, but if you have many data entry forms, you can re-use this code.

Two forms (one in layout and one in Page) how to handle in asp.net mvc3

I am working on a mobile website in ASP.NET MVC3. I have a page where i have search bar in my header. this header is coming from my Layout page which is common to all other Views. And inside my specific page, I have page specific content(forms).
For my Customer/Add action, I return the Add View of Customer which is strongly typed to my CustomerViewModel. I will have form tag in my Add View which will be posted to HttpPost Add Action method when form gets submitted. That is fine. My question is how will i handle the search box content ? I believe only one form is allowed in the page.So if i have a SearchViewModel which is binded to my Search View(Partial), It is going to be 2 forms in my page. So i can not do that.
I can handle the search part by reading the content in java script and calling another action to get Search results.Is that the only way to do that ? I am worried about those devices where java script is disabled. What should i do ? Please advice
No. You can have more than 1 form on the page. In fact, here you should. Your Add Customer page should submit to 1 action method, but your search form should submit to a different action method.
If you are familiar with webforms, that framework only allows you to have 1 form on the page, but not because HTML requires it. Webforms requires it because it is the only way the framework can carry all of the data from various server controls across POST requests (using ViewState). Webforms has historically not been very HTML or HTTP friendly.
You just can't have forms nested within other forms in HTML, but it is completely legal (and recommended in MVC) to have more than 1 form on a page.
As for AJAX, I would not worry about devices that do not have javascript enabled. There are only like 6 or 7 people on the planet that don't have javascript on their web devices, and if someone disables javascript, they won't be able to experience 99% of the rest of the web anyhow.

MVC: On partial page start validation from JS without postback

How do I start validation from the client/javascript using the MS MVC Validation library?
Using MS ASP.Net MVC, I have a page with a PartialView in a modal dialog (change password). When the user selects 'save', I need to validate this on the client side without a full page postback. I am able in JS to post and refresh the partialView, however I am unable to start client validation. The MS MVC validation starts on postback (Input type='submit'). How can I start this in JS?
Validation on the full page with postback works. Thanks,
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I originally posted a link to ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation but I realized that I missed part of the question... It does appear that a few insights are present in the post titled Combining JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET.

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