Model inheritance possible when using strongly-typed view in MVC3?

Question

I have the following setup in my model:

namespace QuickTest.Models
{
    public class Person
    {
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = \"Full name\")]         


        

Answer 1

Have you considered creating your own EditorTemplate for Person, Sender and Receiver? The EditorFor and DisplayFor look for a custom template that match the type of the object.

The internal method will look for a template that matches the type of the object. It will then look for a template that matches the base class and then on up the chain of inheritance.