Differences between Html.TextboxFor and Html.EditorFor in MVC and Razor

Question

Why by default were these changed when adding a new \"edit\" view? What are advantages when using EditorFor() vs. TextboxFor()?

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Answer 1

This is one of the basic differences not mentioned in previous comments:
Readonly property will work with textbox for and it will not work with EditorFor.

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.DateSoldOn, new { @readonly = "readonly" })

Above code works, where as with following you can't make control to readonly.

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.DateSoldOn, new { @readonly = "readonly" })