MVC Partial Model Updates

Question

I often find myself in the situation where I only want to present and edit some fields from my model. Let\'s say I have a model that represts an address, perhaps I just want

Answer 1

Use the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.MetadataType.

Something like:

public class BaseClassOfProperties
{
   public string Name { get; set; }
}

public interface INameViewableProperties
{
   [Display(name = "Your Name")]
   string Name { get; set; }
}

public interface INameHiddenProperties
{
   //[scaffoldColumn(false)] this completely hides the fields
   [UIHint("Hidden")] // i think...
   string Name { get; set; }
}

[MetadataType(typeof(INameViewableProperties)]
public class NameViewAbleProperties : BaseClassOfProperties
{
}

[MetadataType(typeof(INameHiddenProperties)]
public class NameHiddenProperties : BaseClassOfProperties
{
}