Question

I have a strongly typed view in which the first line is;

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Employee.Master" 
Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<IEnumerable<SHP.Models.AnnualLeaveBooked>>" %>

To avoid Id collisions I want to display the collection in a grid so I use an editor template (one of the fields gets edited).
So in my code I put in the line;

    <%: Html.EditorFor(x => x) %>

And then in the EditorTemplate sub folder I put in this template;

<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<SHP.Models.AnnualLeaveBooked>" %>

        <tr>
            <td>
                <%: String.Format("{0:g}", Model.AnnualLeaveDate) %>
            </td>            
            <td>
                <%: Model.ApprovedStatus %>
            </td>
            <td>
                <%: Html.CheckBoxFor(model => model.CancelFlag) %>

                <%: Html.HiddenFor(model => model.AnnualLeaveBookedId) %>
            </td>
        </tr>

The problem I am having is that the EditorFor command does not seem to recognise the EditorTemplate.
What am I doing wrong?
Incidently I would be suprised if x => x is wrong, there is probably a better way to express this.

Answer 1

Your editor template should be: ~/Views/Home/EditorTemplates/AnnualLeaveBooked.ascx where Home is the name of the controller. If it is a global editor template you could also put it in ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/AnnualLeaveBooked.ascx. Notice the name of the editor template: it should be the same as your type name (AnnualLeaveBooked.ascx).

Also instead of:

<%: Html.EditorFor(x => x) %>

you could:

<%: Html.EditorForModel() %>

Finally if you want to name your editor template with some custom name like ~/Views/Home/EditorTemplates/Foo.ascx you could specify this custom name:

<%: Html.EditorForModel("Foo") %>