MVC3 TryUpdateModel() -Update Model for Edit

When we want to update model with edited values we can use TryUpdateModel() method.

example

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public ActionResult edit(int id)
{
    var user= UserRepository.GetUser(id);

    if (TryUpdateModel(user))
    {
        UserRepository.save();
    }

    return view()
}

But some times when we use TryUpdateModel() the model does not update that mean the method return false.So in that case we need to find out the error so we can do that as flowing it will return the list of errors and their corresponding properties.

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public ActionResult edit(int id)
{
    var user= UserRepository.GetUser(id);

    if (TryUpdateModel(user))
    {
        UserRepository.save();
    }
else{
//the tru update method return false
    
    var errors = ModelState
    .Where(m => m.Value.Errors.Count > 0)
    .Select(m => new { m.Key, m.Value.Errors })
    .ToArray();

}

    return view()
}

Why TryUpdateModel() return false ?

Most of the time the TryUpdateModel() method return false when we have not add editable field or hidden filed for all the required fields to view page.
so we can simply add hidden filed to the view which we don't need to change during the update method.

so My user Model

Public Class User{
[Requried]
public int UserId{get;set}
[Requried]
public string UserName {get;set}
[Requried]
pubic string UserCode{get;set}

pubic string Description{get;set}

public string Address{get;set}

}

So if  I want to update UserDescription in my edit page
I have to put UserId,UserName and UserCode as Hidden filed

But if our model content large number of fields and we only need to update few of fields in that case we can do it by specify the fields which we need to update as following

TryUpdateModel(model, new [] {"Description", "Address"}); // In this case the TryUpdate() only  check vaidation "Description","Address"

And also we can do it as fallowing by mentioning the field which should not update

TryUpdateModel(model, null, null, new [] {"UserId","UserName ","UserCode"});//In this case the TryUpdate() ignore "UserId","UserName" and "Usercode" vaidation

Remove Validation Error messege when click Reset Button in MVC3 Razor

The reset button does not clear validation message in mvc3 by default so  we need to do this with jQuery.The fallowing function clear validation messages in MVC3 pages.
.

jQuery(document).ready(function () {

            $("input:reset").click(function () {
                $('.field-validation-error')
               .removeClass('field-validation-error')
                .addClass('field-validation-valid');

                $('.input-validation-error')
                .removeClass('input-validation-error')
                 .addClass('valid');
            });

  });

MVC 3 Razor TextBox max length

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Organization.OrganizationName, new { maxlength = 50 }) 

MVC 3 Razor Editor Template

Editor Template is very useful future in Asp.net MVC3 Framework.With Editor Template we can create template for model and  It  can be access easily in the application (like user controller in asp.net).
So I'm going to create Editor Template for Book Model in my application.
Book.cs

public class Book
{
public int BookId { get; set; }
public string BookName { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
}

Then I'm going to create folder  as EditorTemplates in Shared folder  and add new view Book.cshtml as following.(The Name of the Template should be same as Class Name)
 .

@model MySimpleEditorTemplate.Models.Book


@Html.DisplayFor(p => p.BookId)  
@Html.EditorFor(p => p.BookId)
@Html.DisplayFor(p => p.BookName)
@Html.EditorFor(p => p.BookName)
@Html.DisplayFor(p => p.Description)
@Html.EditorFor(p => p.Description)

Then in view page simply we can add editor for book as

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Book) 

then it will display above block