Best Practices for controlling access to form fields

Question

I have a classic 3-tier ASP.Net 3.5 web application with forms that display business objects and allow them to be edited. Controls on the form correspond to a property of th

Answer 1

I have often found that this is really the only real easy and understandable way to do it, as your interface needs to modify based on the information and level of editing that they can complete.

I do find typically though that depending on the needs, you can interject the "cannot edit" information by passing role information to the business level if you have plans to move to different presentation levels. but this adds complexity, and if you are only building for one interface it would most likely be overkill