EditorTemplate Naming Convention for Collection model classes

Question

I have a model property that is declared as type List<MyClass>.

public class MyModel
{
    List<MyClass> MyProperty { get; set; }
}

I want to be able to display/edit the property using Razor templates. My question is, how I name an EditorTemplate view so that I can display the property using the normal syntax:

@model MyModel
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.MyProperty)

I know that I can create a view called MyClass.cshtml that will be used for the type MyClass, but how do I create a template for the list?

Answer 1

You could use the [UIHint] attribute:

public class MyModel
{
    [UIHint("TemplateForTheList")]
    public List<MyClass> MyProperty { get; set; }
}

or specify the template name as second parameter to the DisplayFor helper:

@model MyModel
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.MyProperty, "TemplateForTheList")

and then have a TemplateForTheList.cshtml template:

@model List<MyClass>
...

In this case the templating engine will not render the template for each element of the collection property. It will simply pass the collection itself to the template.