Kendo UI MVC 4 Exception

[Jeff]

I'm evaluating Kendo UI for a new MVC application and I'm having trouble getting started. I followed all the set-up directions listed the in documentation here:

http://docs.kendoui.com/getting-started/using-kendo-with/aspnet-mvc/introduction

but after putting the following on my home page

             

     @Html.Kendo().AutoComplete()

        .Name("from")

        .DataTextField("Name")

        .DataSource(source =>

                    source.Read(read =>

                                read.Action("Get", "Addresses")

        ).ServerFiltering(true))    

I get:

System.NullReferenceException occurred
  Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  Source=Kendo.Mvc
  StackTrace:
       at Kendo.Mvc.UI.WidgetExtensions.GetUnobtrusiveValidationAttributes(IWidget instance)
       at Kendo.Mvc.UI.Html.DropDownListHtmlBuilderBase.Build()
       at Kendo.Mvc.UI.AutoComplete.WriteHtml(HtmlTextWriter writer)
       at Kendo.Mvc.UI.WidgetBase.ToHtmlString()
       at Kendo.Mvc.UI.Fluent.WidgetBuilderBase`2.ToHtmlString()
       at System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(Object value)
       at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageExecutingBase.WriteTo(TextWriter writer, Object content)
       at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.Write(Object value)

[Jeff]

Hello?

I turned off "Just my Code" and can see that the issue is that "name" is null on the Widget, despite the fact that I'm calling

.Name("from") 

in the code.

[Jeff]

Hello? Is this an actively developed/supported product?

[Daniel]

Hello Jeff,

The most likely reason for the exception is that the runtime assembly binding configuration for older versions of MVC is missing in the Web.config which at least for is needed. Please check if adding the following configuration resolves the problem.

<runtime>
  <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
      <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-4.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />
    </dependentAssembly>
  </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Jeff]

   

<dependentAssembly>

     <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />

     <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />

   </dependentAssembly>

is already in my top level web.config (it was added by default when I created the new project).

I changed 0.0.0.0 to 1.0.0.0, but that had no effect (nor would I expect it to).

My whole assemblyBinding section looks like

<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">

     <dependentAssembly>

       <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />

       <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0" />

     </dependentAssembly>

     <dependentAssembly>

       <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />

       <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />

     </dependentAssembly>

     <dependentAssembly>

       <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />

       <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0" />

     </dependentAssembly>

     <dependentAssembly>

       <assemblyIdentity name="Raven.Client.Lightweight" publicKeyToken="37f41c7f99471593" culture="neutral" />

       <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.0.0.0" newVersion="1.0.0.0" />

     </dependentAssembly>

     <dependentAssembly>

       <assemblyIdentity name="Raven.Abstractions" publicKeyToken="37f41c7f99471593" culture="neutral" />

       <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.0.0.0" newVersion="1.0.0.0" />

     </dependentAssembly>

     <dependentAssembly>

       <assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed" culture="neutral" />

       <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.5.0.0" newVersion="4.5.0.0" />

     </dependentAssembly>

   </assemblyBinding>

My page looks like 

@model ViewModels.AddressViewModel



@Html.Kendo().AutoComplete()

.Name("fromAddress").DataTextField("Name") .DataSource(source => source.Read(read=>

read.Action("Get", "Addresses") ).ServerFiltering(true))

This cshtml is rendered by my Index.cshtml via a call to 

@Html.Partial("Addresses", new AddressViewModel())

...but I've tried putting the AutoComplete on other pages altogether (without any ViewModels or Partial views and get the same result.

hopefully that adds some more context.

[Daniel]

Hello again Jeff,

Sorry, I missed that the AutoComplete definition is not correct. Since you are declaring the control on multiple rows, you should use it inside an explicit code nugget instead of an implicit one. For example:

 @(Html.Kendo().AutoComplete()
        .Name("from")
        .DataTextField("Name")
        .DataSource(source =>
                    source.Read(read =>
                                read.Action("Get", "Addresses")
        ).ServerFiltering(true))
 )

Kind regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

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[Jeff]

Wow! D'oh! Thanks so much.