Question

I am using MVC 3 w/ Razor and using the new dynamic ViewBag property. I would like to use the ViewBag property with the EditorFor/LabelFor Html helpers but can’t figure out the syntax.

The View does have a @model set, but the object I am trying to use is not part of that model. I am aware I can create a ViewModel but that is not what I am after.

Can anyone help?

Controller:

   var myModel= _repo.GetModel(id);
   var newComment = new Comment();

   ViewBag.NewComment = newComment;

   return View(myModel);

View:

@model Models.MyModel

@(Html.EditorFor(ViewBag.NewComment.Comment))

Answer 1

I haven’t tried it, but this should work I think.

@(EditorFor(m => ViewBag.NewComment)

It is possible to use a Linq-to-SQL syntax, but use a completely different object on the right side.