Category: MVC 5

First, send back the browser type from the controller to the browser.

ViewBag.Browser = Request.Browser.Browser; 

Add the following javascript:

 
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery/latest/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/momentjs/latest/moment.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
npm/daterangepicker/daterangepicker.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.

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Close a windows tab upon returning a view:

Do this when a parent window opens a child window.

The child window does the processing, but after the processing, you want the parent window to refresh.

In the SAVE action of …

Close a windows tab upon returning a view:

    @if (ViewBag.CloseWindow == true)
    {
      <script type="text/javascript">
        window.close();
      </script>
    } 

 Closing a Windows tab via a button …

Assuming that you have a PDF in your controller as a byte array, add the following code to convert the data to a base64 string and send to your view.

string imageBase64Data = Convert.ToBase64String(results);
string imageDataURL = string.Format("data:application/pdf;base64,{0}", imageBase64Data);
ViewBag.ImageData 

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Let’s say you want to add focus to a button in your view. The first thing you need to do is add the id attribute to your control and give it a name such as id=”RefreshListButton”.

Next, in the jquery …

I struggled with this one and learned something that was not taught in the tutorial I took on MVC 5. The instructor did not mention that when you receive a model into your Save action (Controller) instead of your view …