ASP.NET MVC

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

levib — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:15:29 GMT

Hi all -

We recently posted a refresh of the RC which fixes the relative path issue many users were experiencing. Phil posted more information on his blog, go check it out for more info. Please pay special attention to the first few paragraphs, as they tell you how to verify that the file you downloaded is the RC refresh and not the original RC.

Thanks for all your feedback on this issue, and thank you all for your patience.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

Haacked — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:26:45 GMT

Note, at the moment, the refresh MSI hasn't propagated to all download servers. So you might inadverdently download the old one.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

mhawley — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:14:47 GMT

They released a RC Refresh tonight which rolls back the changes to relative URLs. You should grab that and you guys should be set. Same download link as before.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

liammclennan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:05:23 GMT

Hi Phil, This is a problem for me.

<%= Url.Action<ReportController>(controller => controller.VehicleLogReport(null)) %>

writes /Report/VehicleLogReport and is fine.

<%= Url.Action("VehicleLogReport", "Report") %>

writes VehicleLogReport and breaks my site.

As you suggested this is an ajax partial view scenario.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

MikeBosch — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:52:01 GMT

BOOM! Bye bye all my links. I use RouteLink extensively because I read somewhere that it was better for performance. Unfortunately, performance is no longer a factor since I can't leave the home page. :-(

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

mrfleck — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:39:58 GMT

Ditto

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

WinstonPang — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:24:43 GMT

Yep, I too am impacted from this change, and we greatly need it to be fixed, as we are halfway through our project and it is critical to have this working. My problem is addressed here:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1377815/2902614.aspx#2902614

Thanks.

Regards,

Winston

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

W4IK — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:56:46 GMT

Definitely got me.

See my post over on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/491704/asp-net-mvc-routing-issue

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

pjnola — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:43:43 GMT

Yep, killed all of the views in my project. I am using Ajax w/partial views (partial page replacement).

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

visualhint — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:04:52 GMT

Same here. I get empty strings when calling RouteUrl.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

molesinski — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:14:46 GMT

Sadly recent url generation code broke most of ajax calls in the project I am working on, as most of them were called on different controller, because they originated from controls placed within master pages.

The good news is that every single dynamic url I generated was from my own extension methods, as I like to actually encode urls on the way for xhtml confirmance, if i inject them directly into href attribute. So solution was to pass resulting url strings via additional method which converted them back to absolute in case incoming request was async Ajax request.

The bad news is that now I wont ever be able to use HtmlHelper extensions for generation elements which include urls in views I am aware that could be rendered asynchronously, so in general all views as otherwise it would cause total mess, leaving me only with my own UrlHelper extensions.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

bradleylandis — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:57:37 GMT

I have a small/medium size project (6 controllers 17 views) and update to RC1 in about 2 hours with no major issues. A few of the changes like SetAttemptedValue and BindModel took me a few minutes to figure out but seem to be working now. I didn't run into the issues you described. I guess I should note that I am not using AJAX anywhere in this app yet.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

JeremyBrown — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:45:25 GMT

I had an issue where the relative URL from BeginForm caused a problem using the jQuery ajaxForm plugin. I was able to work around it by providing the URL as an option in the plugin, but this defeats the purpose for using BeginFrom.

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to use Relative URLs, or the regression in RouteURl?

Nik Coughlin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:37:13 GMT

After reading all the posts here lately I'm too scared to change to RC1. If I get time I'll try upgrading my current project and see what happens

Re: Poll: How many people were affected by the change to generating Relative Urls?

Tijn — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:17:20 GMT

Yes, I'm experiencing this issue. When rendering partial views, the form actions sometimes aren't correct and also, Html.ActionLink() and Url.Content() don't behave properly.
Especially when the controller executes its default action (Index) that doesn't show up in the address bar, things go wrong with the partial request.

This is a 100% showstopper (unless there is a hidden switch somewhere that turns off relative urls :)).