ASP.NET3.5 MVC2 website application using visual studio 2008

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Hi, I am new to the ASP.NET MVC2 website applications development. Looking for some guidance here. Top three questions:
Environment: ASP.NET 3.5 MVC2 website using Visual Studio 2008.

1. Website that i am building is 'Intranet' and more like a document repository at the moment.(not figured out the best approach for document storage,retrieval process)
2. Should be utilizing windows authentication.(Figured out)
3. Multi level left and top navigation menu.(Not figured out the best approach, tried downloading the jquery templates but none worked with the environment above, please suggest any compatible jquery templates).
4. Does MVC2 approach provide ability to control/edit the content on the website using webparts based on windows login/permissions defined on code-behind?

Please suggest for #1 and #3, and for #2 do you think MVC2 is best choice or should go with web form based website development with the constraints in environment.

Thank you!
-MT

Posted 5-Aug-13 5:03am

metharam

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To help with your #4, in an MVC 4 intranet app i wrote, i setup the controller methods to restrict access based on roles.

Ex: Only administrators can get a view from this index method:

SQL

[Authorize(Roles="Administrators")]
        public ActionResult Index()
        {

This will keep people for accessing things they shouldn't

I also add something like this to menus in my views to control who will see what.

@if(Roles.IsUserInRole("Administrators"))
  {<ul><li>@Html.ActionLink("Click Here", "Index", "HomeController")</li></ul>}

Only administrators will be offered a "Click Here" link to the Index view in the Home Controller.

I hope that helps you to get started. Good luck!

Posted 5-Aug-13 9:47am

mgoad99

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metharam 5-Aug-13 15:58pm

Hi , Is above solution applicable to this Environment: ASP.NET 3.5 MVC2 website using Visual Studio 2008.

mgoad99 5-Aug-13 15:58pm

I believe so.

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-05T10:54:00

0) Don't live in the past. Switch to MVC4, and if you can't upgrade a full blown version of VS to 2012, just download a Web Developer Express edition[^], I am pretty sure, it will be enough for you for the start.
1) Use entity framework[^] as "DAL+BL".
2) If you need to manage multiple and large files, you better use the FILESTREAM[^] functionality of SQL server instead of BLOBs (varbinary(max)), here is an example how to integrate with EF: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2008/05/12/ado-net-entity-framework-support-filestream.aspx[^]
3) Windows authentication is quite straightforward in MVC[^], mostly managed by IIS[^] itself, but authorization might be more complicated, especially in a domain environment.
4) Jquery is a good approach to the navigation, but better step forward with your environment than step back with jquery.
5) "webparts" are not mvc concepts. You can control anything, you have full control over the emitted html code, more than with web forms. But the possibility of editing the document is really dependent on the document format. So there is no single answer to this.
6) You might look around here to see some CMS implemented with MVC: http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=mvc%20cms&ac=4[^]