Html.EditorFor, Model Property vs RouteData Value

Sun, 13 May 2012 15:41:40 +0000

The ASP.NET MVC team made our lives easier when they created the Html editor extension method Html.EditoFor(); you just pass the model property and it creates the right editor, filling it with the property’s value…but not always!

Let’s consider that we have the conventional route definition:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

and this simple action method:

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Html.EditorFor, Model Property vs RouteData Value