Html.EditorFor Set Default Value

Question

Rookie question. I have a parameter being passed to a create view. I need to set a field name with a default value. @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Id) I need to set this in

Answer 1

The clean way to do so is to pass a new instance of the created entity through the controller:

//GET
public ActionResult CreateNewMyEntity(string default_value)
{
    MyEntity newMyEntity = new MyEntity();
    newMyEntity._propertyValue = default_value;

    return View(newMyEntity);
}

If you want to pass the default value through ActionLink

@Html.ActionLink("Create New", "CreateNewMyEntity", new { default_value = "5" })