Work with Multiple Buttons in ASP.NET MVC

Introduction: As while developing any application in ASP.NET MVC, there are various features that a user can apply to their application and one of them is to use multiple buttons in an application for different purposes. To do so just take a number of buttons and apply various functions as per your requirement that can be for navigation or to check validations.

Steps to show the use of multiple buttons

Step1: Open Visual Studio 2010.

• Click on file menu and choose new
• New>project

• Now Click on ASP.NET MVC web application from the installed template

Step 2: Now first add a Model to it.

• Right click on the models folder
• Choose add > class
• Now name the class   
   

As Model is used to deal with logic and to connect the database hence to do so manipulate the code of the model class as per the requirement.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Security;
 
namespace MvcApplication28.Models
{
public class LogOnModel
    {
        [Required]
        [DisplayName("User name")]
        public string UserName { get; set; }
        [Required]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [DisplayName("Password")]
        public string Password { get; set; } 
        [DisplayName("Remember me?")]
        public bool RememberMe { get; set; }
    }
}

Step 3 : After that now add a controller that has a reference to the model class.

• Choose add controller
• Right click on the controllers folder 
• Name the controller

Now as controller work for providing the controls over model class and for user interface as well hence we have to manipulate the code according to over requirements to deal with model class and the view. 

Code the controller
using System;using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using System.Web.Security;using MvcApplication28.Models;
namespace MvcApplication28.Controllers
{
    [HandleError]
    public class AccountController : Controller
    {
         public ActionResult MultipleButtonsInSamePage(string ButtonClick)
        {
            if (ButtonClick.Equals("Button1"))
            {
                //Perform function for button1 click
            }
            else if (ButtonClick.Equals("Button2"))
            {
                //Perform function for button2 click
            }
            else if (ButtonClick.Equals("Button3"))
            {
                //Perform function for button2 click
            }
            return View();
        }
public ActionResult LogOn()
        {
            return View();
        }
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult LogOn(LogOnModel model, string returnUrl)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                if (MembershipService.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password))
                {
                    FormsService.SignIn(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);
                    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl))
                    {
                        return Redirect(returnUrl);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
                    }
                }
                else                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
                }
            }
            // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
          return View(model);
        }

Step 4: Now add a view for the user interface.

• To do so right click on action method
• Click on add view
• Name the view and check for strong view

Code the view.

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master"Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<MvcApplication28.Models.LogOnModel>" %><asp:Content ID="loginTitle" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="loginContent" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
    <h2>Check this out</h2>
    <p>
        Please enter your username and password. <%: Html.ActionLink("GO", "Register") %> if you don't have an account.
   </p>
     <% using (Html.BeginForm()) { %>       <%: Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Login was unsuccessful. Please correct the errors and try again.") %>        <div>
            <fieldset>
                <legend>Account Information</legend>
                
                <div class="editor-label">
                    <%: Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName) %>
                </div>
                <div class="editor-field">
                    <%: Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.UserName) %>
                    <%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.UserName) %>
                </div>
                
                <div class="editor-label">
                    <%: Html.LabelFor(m => m.Password) %>
                </div>
                <div class="editor-field">
                    <%: Html.PasswordFor(m => m.Password) %>
                    <%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Password) %>
                </div>                
                <div class="editor-label">
                    <%: Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.RememberMe) %>
                    <%: Html.LabelFor(m => m.RememberMe) %>
                </div>            
              <p>                    <input type="submit" value="LogOn" />                      <input type="submit" value="Button 2" />                       <input type="submit" value="Button 3" />                </p>            </fieldset>        </div>    <% } %></asp:Content>

Now you can run your application and can see the demo by pressing f5.

Initial Screen

Use of  Button2

Use of Button LogOn