Month: September 2013

Movies.mdf not in App_data Folder – MVC4 Tutorial

Hey everyone,

I’ve decided to take a look MVC4 (C#) and have just started the Movies tutorial. Unfortunately I ran into a bit of trouble with the database setup, for some reason mine wasn’t appearing in the app_data folder.

Apparently there are a few things you can try here:

Click Show All Files
This one is pretty simple, just click Show All Files
– Project > Show All Files

Refresh
Hit the refresh button
– Project > Refresh

Ensure that you’ve created a movie
You’ll need to make sure you’ve created a movie first. Apparently the database is not created until after a new row is inserted.

Final Solution, also the one that worked for me
The database wasn’t actually created under app_data, instead it was placed under: C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLEXPRESSMSSQLDATA

This StackOverflow post explains why: asp-net-retrieving-data-from-nowhere

ng-class with ng-repeat – AngularJS

Hey everyone,

Just another quick AngularJS post. This one is for using ng-class with ng-repeat. The goal here is to have a class applied to the non-selected elements. To start with, we’ll chuck the following in our controller:

$scope.transmission = {
selected: null,
options: [
{
name: 'Any'
},			
{	
name: 'Manual'
},			
{
name: 'Automatic'
}			
]
};

Here we’re just creating a few random objects. To keep things simple we’re going with transmission types: a manual car, automatic or any. Next you’ll want to add the markup:

...


	

		

			

				{{option.name}}
			

		

	



...

Finally the class to be applied:

.line-through{
	text-decoration: line-through;
}

Creating a ‘Starts With’ Filter in AngularJs

Hey everyone,

Just a quick post on how to create a simply custom filter in AngularJS. We’ll be using the same regions objects as the other day:

{
	"regions": [
		{
			"id": "1",
			"postcode": "4700",
			"name": "Rockhampton",
			"description": "One of the major cities in Central Queensland."
		},
		{
			"id": "16",
			"postcode": "4214",
			"name": "Keppel Island",
			"description": "Awesome islands, very few people, heaps of fish beautiful clear water."
		}
	]
}

We’ll create the filter like so:

app.filter('regionsWithPostcode', function(){
	return function(regions, postcode){

		//Create vars
		var matching_regions = [];		

		//Check if input matches current postcode
		if(regions && postcode){		 	
		 	
		 	//Loop through each region
			for(var i = 0; i < regions.length; i++){
				if(regions[i].postcode.substr(0, postcode.length) == postcode){
					matching_regions.push(regions[i]);
				}
			}

			//Return matching regions
			return matching_regions;
		}
		else{
			return regions;
		}		
	}
});

And finally, we’ll setup the HTML as follows:

	

		
		Use Postcode
	

	

		

			{{region.name}}

Filter by Object Property in Ng-Repeat – AngularJS

Hey everyone,

Just a quick post on how to filter by a property when using ng-repeat. To start with, we’ll use the following objects:

{
	"regions": [
		{
			"id": "1",
			"postcode": "4700",
			"name": "Rockhampton",
			"description": "One of the major cities in Central Queensland."
		},
		{
			"id": "16",
			"postcode": "4214",
			"name": "Keppel Island",
			"description": "Awesome islands, very few people, heaps of fish beautiful clear water."
		}
	]
}

Then assuming you want to filter by the postcode all you need is the following:

Region




	

		{{region.name}}