Notification dropdown in navbar is done.

Project-Unite/ACL.cs

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Web.Mvc.Html;
 using System.Data.Entity;
+using System.Text;
 
 namespace Project_Unite
 {
@@ -32,6 +33,35 @@ public static IHtmlString NewestUser(this HtmlHelper hpr)
                 return hpr.Raw("<a href=\"/Profiles/ViewProfile/" + user.DisplayName + "\"><span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-star\"></span> Our newest user, <strong>" + user.DisplayName + "</strong></a>");
         }
 
+        public static IHtmlString GetLatestNotifications(this HtmlHelper hpr, string userName)
+        {
+            var db = new ApplicationDbContext();
+            var user = db.Users.FirstOrDefault(x => x.UserName == userName);
+            if (user == null)
+                return hpr.Raw("");
+            var notesOrdered = user.Notifications.Where(x => x.IsRead == false).OrderByDescending(x => x.Timestamp).ToArray();
+            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < notesOrdered.Length && i < 5; i++)
+            {
+                builder.AppendLine("<li><a href=\"" + notesOrdered[i].ActionUrl + "\">");
+                //Avatar holder start:
+                builder.AppendLine("<div style=\"width:128px;height:128px;display:inline-block;\">");
+                //Avatar
+                builder.AppendLine("<img src=\"" + notesOrdered[i].AvatarUrl + "\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\"/>");
+                //Avatar holder end:
+                builder.AppendLine("</div>");
+
+                //Notification title.
+                builder.AppendLine("<strong>" + notesOrdered[i].Title + "</strong><br/>");
+                //Contents.
+                builder.AppendLine("<p>" + notesOrdered[i].Description + "</p>");
+
+                builder.AppendLine("</a></li>");
+            }
+            return hpr.Raw(builder.ToString());
+        }
+
         public static IHtmlString Markdown(this HtmlHelper hpr, string md)
         {
             return hpr.Raw(CommonMark.CommonMarkConverter.Convert(hpr.Encode(md)));

Project-Unite/Models/Notification.cs

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ public class Notification
         public string Discriminator { get; set; }
         public DateTime Timestamp { get; set; }
         public bool IsRead { get; set; }
-
+        public string AvatarUrl { get; set; }
+        public string Title { get; set; }
+        public string Description { get; set; }
+        public string ActionUrl { get; set; }
     }
 }

Project-Unite/Views/Shared/_LoginPartial.cshtml

@@ -7,7 +7,13 @@
 
     <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"  style="margin-right:15px;">
         <li>@Html.NewestUser()</li>
-        <li class="dropdown"><a href="#" data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown-toggle"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-bullhorn"></span> @Html.NotificationCount(User.Identity.GetUserId())</a></li>
+        <li class="dropdown"><a href="#" data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown-toggle"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-bullhorn"></span> @Html.NotificationCount(User.Identity.GetUserId())</a>
+            <ul class="dropdown-menu">
+                <li class="dropdown-header">Notifications (@Html.NotificationCount(User.Identity.Name) unread)</li>
+                @Html.GetLatestUnread(User.Identity.Name)
+                <li>@Html.ActionLink("View all", "Notifications", "Manage")</li>
+            </ul>
+        </li>
         <li class="dropdown"><a href="#" data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown-toggle"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-user"></span> @Html.UserName(User.Identity.GetUserId()) <span class="caret"></span></a>
             <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                 <li><a href="@Url.Action("ViewProfile", "Profiles", new { id = ACL.UserNameRaw(User.Identity.GetUserId()) })"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-user"></span> Profile</a></li>