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re: A Quick Fix for the Validator SetFocusOnError Bug

RitZ — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:50:58 GMT

Can you please provide a VB version of this code, am quite noob in VB right now... :S

re: Set hardware clock to UTC on Windows (or how to make the clock work on a Mac Book Pro)

dmmcintyre3 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:30:29 GMT

Thanks, That worked great

re: ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form

sureshkumar — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:50:43 GMT

Thank you very much..

re: ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form

Simon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:32:15 GMT

This works great unless you are validating the form using jQuery. As a result I just get a null value for the button.

re: LINQ - The Uber FindControl

Anderson Imes — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:54:02 GMT

I found this useful for about the 10th time today and decided it was time to leave a comment about it. Thanks for writing this.

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re: ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form

Markus — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:10:30 GMT

Addendum to my previous post. The multiple buttons value issue in multilingual pages is now resolved. The key is to give each button an unique name. Conforming to HTTP standards, only the clicked button value is posted to the controller. The controller checks for null (vb=nothing) against each submit button and executes the relevant code:

Page:

<button type="submit" name="addButton" value="add">Button Text or Image</button>

<button type="submit" name="saveButton" value="save">Button Text or Image</button>

<button type="submit" name="nextButton" value="next">Button Text or Image</button>

Controller:

<AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)> _

Function MyAction(ByVal model As MyModel, ByVal addButton As String, ByVal saveButton As String, ByVal nextButton As String) As ActionResult

If Not IsNothing(nextButton) Then

'next code

ElseIf Not IsNothing(addButton) Then

'add code

ElseIf Not IsNothing(saveButton) Then

'save code

Else

'Else Code

End If

End Function

I hope this helps anyone having the same issue.

re: ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form

Markus — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:17:29 GMT

Great article, David. However, option 1 does not seem to work if the button text differs from the value:

HTML:

The text for the "next" button is language dependent. Option 1 always returns the text to the controller and not the value, i.e. the variable submitButton has the value of the expression <%=Server.HtmlEncode(Resources.LocalizedResources.BUTTON_NEXT)%> and not the value of the button element. Does anybody else encounter the same behaviour?

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re: ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form

Tanrikut — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:17:09 GMT

Just what I am looking for. First solution is great for for no javascript situations.