MVC template from folder other than default (EditorTemplates/DisplayTemplates)?

Question

Can you point MVC to a folder other than the default ones (Views/Shared/EditorTemplates & Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates)? I\'d like to either put them in subfolders bel

Answer 1

If you do this:

@Html.EditorFor(x => x.Foo, "Order/ProductModel")

it won't parse Foo as a collection and apply your editor template to each item. It will rather assume that your editor template should be applied to the collection as a whole.

If you want to apply editor template to each item individually, just place it in EditorTemplates folder under your view folder (as it will have precedence) and use the default syntax:

@Html.EditorFor(x => x.Foo)

Of course, the name of the editor template has to match the type of items in your collection.