ASP.NET MVC Editing A Collection Best Practices - Your Opinion

Question

Given the following class, what is your opinion on the best way to handle create/edit where Attributes.Count can be any number.

public class Product {
  pub         


        

Answer 1

Look at Steve Sanderson’s blog post Editing a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style.

Controller

Your action method receives your native domain model Product and stays pretty simple:

public ActionResult Edit(Product model)

View

Edit.aspx

<% foreach (Attribute attr in Model.Attributes)
   {
       Html.RenderPartial("AttributeEditRow", attr);
   } %>

AttributeEditRow.ascx

Pay your attention to helper extension Html.BeginCollectionItem(string)

<% using(Html.BeginCollectionItem("Attributes")) { %>
    
<% } %>

Adding and editing of new attributes is possible too. See the post.