Mvc 4 default editor templates

You'll notice that we are already using DisplayFor in the User display template to call the corresponding display template for the Address object and the DateTime struct. Let's see another example. Say we want to have a list of all the Roles, and the number of users in each role.

Let's further say that each role name should be a link to the Edit view for the roles. We want this Role display to look like this:. Let's try one last demo where we can see the real usage of display templates. Say we want to list all users in a given role:.

In short, use Display Templates when you need to standardize how an object should look when displayed on a view. We've seen how display templates can be used to standardize the layout of an object, so let's now see how we can do the same thing for these objects when editing them. Just like display templates, there's two ways to call editor templates for a given type:.

For this demo, we'll be creating them in the Shared folder. Simple, right? How about for adding a User? Note the use of EditorFor on this template. In short, use editor templates when you need to standardize how the layout of a class should look when editing that class. Display and editor templates are great ways to standardize the look of your site for given classes. He initializes any of these text boxes for display or editor and dynamically adds the Google Map after each.

He pulls the lat,long out of the text box and creates the map. When the text box changes he set a marker and pans the map to the new location. The next step will be to bundle this all up in a NuGet.

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Sponsored By. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. About Newsletter. Hosting By. Share on Twitter or Facebook or use the Permalink. September 04, I wish I could use EF 5.

NET 4. I was surprised to see this support in EF 5. Anyone have any idea if and when support for hierarchy type is coming? Gary Leonard. September 05, Thanks for an interesting blog post. However it doesn't build the solution due to missing assembly references. Am I doing something wrong? Is it not enough to check the "Allow NuGet to download Try now? Scott Hanselman. Great post Scott! VS complained it couldn't find the spatial type in my View Templates, until I found this post which points out that I need to add the assembly reference to the web.

Builds fine after doing that. Eddie Appell. September 06, Sunil Sharma. Last week I wanted to do the same on azure Unfortunately DbGeography is only available in 4. Ahmadreza Atighechi. Hi Scott, cheers for this, brilliant - was just the thing I needed, as was working on something to allow people to edit locations of items on a db.

I've done a very crude tweak some people may find useful I'm sure there is a better way of doing it, but this was my first method, and it worked, so it'll do for the moment. TextBox "", Model. Dave Heywood. Brad Phipps. September 11, If you use conditionals in the TextBox call, all of a sudden the code turns into a two-line template: now that's what I call "beauty" DbGeography Html.

TextBox string. Empty, this. Empty : this. Brad Lucas. September 23, Hi all I'm having trouble with the above. The templates are working fine but when I do a post to save, the model doesn't have a value for the Location. It's just null. In the below piece of code valueProviderResult is always null GetValue bindingContext.

Also, the DbGeographyModelBinder has stopped getting called completely now for some reason!? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Mark Brown. For this article, it is a simple table that contains a few columns including a Date , DateTime and Time.

You can generate the database from the Project files linked at the end of the article. Essentially this JavaScript triggers when DOM is ready and applies the appropriate picker control based on the attribute set within the EditorTemplates in steps 6 , 7 and 8. This will add the date-picker attribute via the Editor Template model if the column is a DateTime. This will add the date-picker attribute via the Editor Template model if the column is a TimeSpan. You might notice that two Editor Templates exist for DateTime.

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