Question

I have this line in my View:

@Html.EditorForModel()

And this is my ViewModel:

public class CommentForm
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [DisplayName("Kommentar"), DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
    public string Comment { get; set; }
}

The problem is that Id renders as a textfield in the form. Actually, I only want to use Id in the form action. Is there an attribute that tells the editor not to render the property Id?

Answer 1

Thanks for your contributions, but I didn’t really like them.

I made my own PreventRenderingAttribute.

PreventRenderingAttribute.cs

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property)]
public class PreventRenderingAttribute : Attribute, IMetadataAware
{
    public void OnMetadataCreated(ModelMetadata metadata)
    {
        metadata.ShowForDisplay = false;
        metadata.ShowForEdit = false;
    }
}

And in CommentForm

[PreventRendering]
public int Id { get; set; }