Binding conflict between a property named Title in my Model and View.Title in my View (in MVC)

Question

My Model contains a property named Title, and in my Create view I set the page title using ViewBag.Title.

This creates the fol

Answer 1

I would recommend using EditorFor instead of Editor.

Html.EditorFor(x => x.Title)

instead of:

Html.Editor("Title")

This way not only that the view takes advantage of your view model but it behaves as expected in this case.

Example with ASP.NET MVC 3.0 RTM (Razor):

Model:

public class MyViewModel
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
}

Controller:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewBag.Title = "ViewBag title";
        ViewData["Title"] = "ViewData title";
        var model = new MyViewModel
        {
            Title = "Model title"
        };
        return View(model);
    }
}

View:

@model AppName.Models.MyViewModel
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}

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

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Some other title";
}

So no matter how much we try to abuse here the editor template uses the correct model title (which is not the case if we used Html.Editor("Title")).