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    <p>I'm working with MVC 4 EF Code First and I have an object with an Edit View and it works properly. Then I created a very similar Create View, only when I click on the submit button I don't hit any breakpoints in the Controller. How do I tell what's wrong here? Is there somewhere I can set a breakpoint in either JavaScript or code-behind?</p> <p><strong>Model</strong></p> <pre><code>public class ThirdParty : BaseModel { public Int32 Id { get; set; } [MaxLength(2)] private String CountryCode { get; set; } [MaxLength(6)] private Int32 SequenceNumber { get; set; } public String UIN { get { if (CountryCode != null &amp;&amp; SequenceNumber &gt; 0) return CountryCode.ToString() + "-" + SequenceNumber.ToString(); else return null; } set { CountryCode = value.ToString().Substring(0, 2); SequenceNumber = Int32.Parse(value.ToString().Substring(3, value.Length-3)); } } [MaxLength(250)] [Required(AllowEmptyStrings = false, ErrorMessage = "{0} is required.")] public String Name { get; set; } public virtual ICollection&lt;RelationshipType&gt; RelationshipTypes { get; set; } // Address public Int32 AddressId { get; set; } [ForeignKey("AddressId")] public virtual Address Address { get; set; } public bool IsImported { get; set; } public bool IsActive { get; set; } public virtual ICollection&lt;Attachment&gt; Attachments { get; set; } // constructor public ThirdParty() { RelationshipTypes = new HashSet&lt;RelationshipType&gt;(); Attachments = new HashSet&lt;Attachment&gt;(); } } </code></pre> <p><strong>Controller Methods</strong></p> <pre><code>public ActionResult Edit(int id) { ThirdPartyContext context = new ThirdPartyContext(); ThirdParty model = context.ThirdParties.Find(id); ViewBag.Countries = context.Countries.ToList&lt;Country&gt;(); return View(model); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Edit(string button, ThirdParty model, int id) { if (button == "cancel") return RedirectToAction("Index"); if (ModelState.IsValid) { ThirdPartyContext context = new ThirdPartyContext(); model.Address.Country = context.Countries.Find(model.Address.CountryId); context.Entry(model.Address.Country).State = EntityState.Modified; context.Entry(model.Address).State = EntityState.Modified; context.Entry(model).State = EntityState.Modified; context.SaveChanges(); Success("Third Party record updated!"); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } else { ThirdPartyContext context = new ThirdPartyContext(); model.Address = context.Addresses.Find(model.AddressId); return View("Edit", model); } } public ActionResult Create() { ThirdPartyContext context = new ThirdPartyContext(); ViewBag.Countries = context.Countries.ToList&lt;Country&gt;(); return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(ThirdParty model) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { ThirdPartyContext context = new ThirdPartyContext(); List&lt;ThirdParty&gt; models = context.ThirdParties.ToList&lt;ThirdParty&gt;(); model.Id = models.Count() == 0 ? 1 : models.Select(x =&gt; x.Id).Max() + 1; context.ThirdParties.Add(model); context.SaveChanges(); Success("Your information was saved!"); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } Error("There were some errors in your form."); return View(model); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(string button, ThirdParty model) { if (button == "cancel") return RedirectToAction("Index"); if (ModelState.IsValid) { ThirdPartyContext context = new ThirdPartyContext(); List&lt;ThirdParty&gt; models = context.ThirdParties.ToList&lt;ThirdParty&gt;(); model.Id = models.Count() == 0 ? 1 : models.Select(x =&gt; x.Id).Max() + 1; context.ThirdParties.Add(model); context.SaveChanges(); Success("Your information was saved!"); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } Error("There were some errors in your form."); return View(model); } </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit View</strong></p> <pre><code>@model Models.ThirdParty @{ ViewBag.Title = "Edit"; Layout = "~/Views/shared/ContentLayout.cshtml"; } &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-12"&gt; &lt;div class="page-header"&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Third Party&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-8"&gt; @using (Html.BeginForm("Edit", "ThirdParty", new { ReturnUrl = ViewBag.ReturnUrl }, FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "form-horizontal" })) { @Html.AntiForgeryToken() @Html.ValidationSummary(true) &lt;div class="form-group"&gt; @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.Id) &lt;div class="clearfix visible-xs"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.Address.Id) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="form-group"&gt; @Html.EditorFor(model =&gt; model.UIN) &lt;div class="clearfix visible-xs"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; @Html.EditorFor(model =&gt; model.Name) &lt;/div&gt; @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.AddressId) @Html.Partial("_EditAddress", Model) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.CreatedBy) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.CreatedOn) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.ModifiedBy) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.ModifiedOn) &lt;p&gt; &lt;button name="button" type="submit" class="btn btn-default" value="cancel"&gt;Cancel&lt;/button&gt; &lt;button name="button" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="submit"&gt;Submit&lt;/button&gt; &lt;/p&gt; } &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>** Create View **</p> <pre><code>@model Models.ThirdParty @{ ViewBag.Title = "Create"; Layout = "~/Views/shared/ContentLayout.cshtml"; } &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-12"&gt; &lt;ul class="breadcrumb" style="margin-bottom: 5px;"&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Third Parties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="active"&gt;Create New Third Party&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-12"&gt; &lt;div class="page-header"&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Create Third Party&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-8"&gt; @using (Html.BeginForm("Create", "ThirdParty", new { ReturnUrl = ViewBag.ReturnUrl }, FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "form-horizontal" })) { @Html.AntiForgeryToken() @Html.ValidationSummary(true) @Html.EditorFor(model =&gt; model.UIN) @Html.EditorFor(model =&gt; model.Name) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.AddressId) @Html.Partial("_EditAddress", Model) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.CreatedBy) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.CreatedOn) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.ModifiedBy) @Html.HiddenFor(model =&gt; model.ModifiedOn) &lt;p&gt; &lt;button name="button" type="submit" class="btn btn-default" value="cancel"&gt;Cancel&lt;/button&gt; &lt;input name="button" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="submit" title="Submit" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Create" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; } &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="col-lg-2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p> <p>I may have left out a critical part. I have these 4 hidden fields on the ThirdParty and Address models that I am planning to set in the controller Create method (if I can ever get in there). Here's the Model:</p> <pre><code>public class BaseModel { [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)] public Int32 CreatedBy { get; set; } [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)] [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)] public DateTime CreatedOn { get; set; } [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)] public Int32 ModifiedBy { get; set; } [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)] [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)] public DateTime ModifiedOn { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>I was thinking that maybe my view is invalid and that's why it's not sending it to the controller. Here's how these look in the page markup:</p> <pre><code> &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-number="The field CreatedBy must be a number." data-val-required="The CreatedBy field is required." id="Address_CreatedBy" name="Address.CreatedBy" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-date="The field CreatedOn must be a date." data-val-required="The CreatedOn field is required." id="Address_CreatedOn" name="Address.CreatedOn" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-number="The field ModifiedBy must be a number." data-val-required="The ModifiedBy field is required." id="Address_ModifiedBy" name="Address.ModifiedBy" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-date="The field ModifiedOn must be a date." data-val-required="The ModifiedOn field is required." id="Address_ModifiedOn" name="Address.ModifiedOn" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;div class="form-group"&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-number="The field CreatedBy must be a number." data-val-required="The CreatedBy field is required." id="CreatedBy" name="CreatedBy" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-date="The field CreatedOn must be a date." data-val-required="The CreatedOn field is required." id="CreatedOn" name="CreatedOn" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-number="The field ModifiedBy must be a number." data-val-required="The ModifiedBy field is required." id="ModifiedBy" name="ModifiedBy" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;input data-val="true" data-val-date="The field ModifiedOn must be a date." data-val-required="The ModifiedOn field is required." id="ModifiedOn" name="ModifiedOn" type="hidden" value="" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre>
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