EditorTemplate Naming Convention for Collection model classes

Question

I have a model property that is declared as type List.

public class MyModel
{
    List MyProperty { get; set; }
}


        

Answer 1

You could use the [UIHint] attribute:

public class MyModel
{
    [UIHint("TemplateForTheList")]
    public List<MyClass> MyProperty { get; set; }
}

or specify the template name as second parameter to the DisplayFor helper:

@model MyModel
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.MyProperty, "TemplateForTheList")

and then have a TemplateForTheList.cshtml template:

@model List<MyClass>
...

In this case the templating engine will not render the template for each element of the collection property. It will simply pass the collection itself to the template.