asp.net-mvc

Large File uploading to asp.net MVC

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I need a way to upload large files (600 mb to 4 gb) in an asp.net mvc website.
Currently I am using swfupload; it works well enough, but it is a huge hit on the webserver because it sends it in one big upload, plus I have to set it in the web.config to allow that huge of a file, which is a huge security risk. In the past when I was doing web forms development I used Neatupload which breaks up the file into chunks and uploads them individually. I am looking for a way to upload large files in mvc that uploads via chunking it up. Any ideas on how I could do this?

Adding NUnit to the options for ASP.NET MVC test framework

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I have nUnit installed. I have VS2008 Team Edition installed. I have ASP.Net MVC Preview 4 (Codeplex) installed. How do I make Visual Studio show me nUnit as a testing framework when creating a new MVC project? At this point I still only have the Microsoft Testing Framework as a choice. Update: I installed nUnit … Read more

Calling @Html.Partial to display a partial view belonging to a different controller

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I am developing an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, whose content pages have a common pattern of layout elements. However, because the login page does not follow this layout, I cannot place this layout in ViewsShared_Layout.cshtml. So I would like to add another shared layout, say, ViewsShared_Content.cshtml, and call it from the content views… but unfortunately … Read more

IIS 6.0 wildcard mapping benchmarks?

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I’m quickly falling in love with ASP.NET MVC beta, and one of the things I’ve decided I won’t sacrifice in deploying to my IIS 6 hosting environment is the extensionless URL. Therefore, I’m weighing the consideration of adding a wildcard mapping, but everything I read suggests a potential performance hit when using this method. However, I can’t find any actual benchmarks!