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I was recently asked to add an ASP.NET MVC 4 application to an existing Web Forms site. The ideal solution was to keep the code bases separate and the apps on a common domain.

If you need to show many results (tens, hundreds or thousands), in a paged manner, you won’t want to display links to all those pages. I looked online for some c# that would adapt the number of page links shown to with the number of pages returned, but found nothing.

Full source code is a attached here. This post shows two methods of implementing drop down lists in ASP.NET MVC 4. The code for data access and the general layout of the application should not be considered suitable for anything other than pedagogical purposes.

Summary In this post I show how to use dynamic compilation to allow Entity Framework to reference tables whose names are not known at compile time. Details Entity Framework works great for the majority of scenarios; it handles tables in one database or spread across multiple databases very well.

Here’s something I worked on a few days ago. It shows six ways of verifying that an incoming string has nine numeric characters and then returns a string in the standard social security number format.

The dotclear blogging engine has some issues when including pre-formated html; it removes all leading spaces and mangles empty lines. This is a significant problem when posting nicely coloured code snippets like those produced by hilite.