Ext.Direct for ASP.NET MVC

[ttbgwt]

Does this work with 4.2?

[JNickVA]

My ASP.NET MVC3/ExtJS application requires multiple Views that need to be maintained as C# code. What would be the best way to use these Views from the client-side ExtJS? Can a Ext.Direct call to a Controller Action, which returns a View, be used? What would the syntax be in the ExtJS code? If this isn't the best way to accomplish the task, what is? The way I see this working is for each C# View to have a <script> tag to load the ExtJS .js file for the client-side code.

[NicoExtForum]

Hi,
it seems we found an issue using the lastest version in a non "en-Us" environnement : when used to call a method with a Date parameter, Ext.Direct.Mvc return an invalid date or an exception when parsing the String : this problem occurs with the basic sample included with the source.

After looking at the source code, it seems the issue occurs in ReadJson method of the RequestDataConverter class where each JValue sent from the client are converted to string : if the JValue contains a DateTime the toString must specify the InvariantCulture to avoid parsing issue in the DirectValueProvider. To resolve the problem we've only add a check if the value is an IFormattable. Hence the following modification in the ReadJson method resolves the problem :

if (value is IFormattable)
{
    data.Add(value == null ? null : ((IFormattable)value).ToString(null,CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
}
else
{
    data.Add(value == null ? null : value.ToString());
}