Does Html.TextBox uses Request.Params instead of Model?

Question

I have a simple test application:

Model:

public class Counter
{
    public int Count { get; set; }

    public Counter()
    {
        Count = 4;
           


        

Answer 1

That's not the issue here. Specifying

<%= Html.TextBox("Count") %>

is equivalent to specifying

<%= Html.TextBox("Count", null) %>

which will pull the matching value (named "Count") from the ModelStateDictionary.

But even so, explicitly passing in

<%= Html.TextBox("Count", Model.Count) %>

results in the same behavior described by alex2k8.