Question

If you pass an anonymous object back to the controller, it populates controller arguments by looking at the anonymous object property names – so how would I pass back properties of related objects to my model so that the default value binder can bind them?

For example:

Model:

public class MyViewModel
{
    public MyItem MyItem { get; set; }
}

public class MyItem
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Controller:

public ActionResult Index(MyViewModel model)
{
    return View(model);
}

In the view, I want to pass the MyItem.Name back, how is this possible? I have tried:

@Html.ActionLinke("Index", "MyController", new { name = "example" })

and

@Html.ActionLinke("Index", "MyController", new { myItem_Name = "example" })

Help please!

Answer 1

The answer was to create a custom ModelBinder and ModelBinderProvider.