Question

Whats the best way to get User Input from the view to controller. I mean specific input not like “FormCollection” someting like “object person” or “int value” and how to refresh the page on certain interval

Answer 1

Say for example if your view is strongly typed with a “Person” class:

public class Person
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
}

Then inside your view:

@model MyMVCApp.Person
@using(Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.EditorForModel()
    // or Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.FirstName) .. and do this for all of the properties.
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
}

Then you’d have an action that would handle the form:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(Person model)
{
    // do stuff with model here.
}

MVC uses what are called ModelBinders to take that form collection and map it to a model.

To answer your second question, you can refresh a page with the following JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript">
// Reload after 1 minute.
setTimeout(function ()
{
    window.location.reload();
}, 60000);
</script>