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Question: Are there any Mvc framework solutions that I can leverage to create a clean and concise approach that represents my user control that I am converting? (There are four major design considerations listed below)

1. This user control has a lot of explanatory text information within. I really want to avoid writing a helper method that is a mile long containing a ton of standard HTML and text.
2. This user control contains a Grid. I have written my on Grid control in Mvc but I have not had any experience as of yet with composition of html helpers in a clean fashion.
3. This control is only presented to the user as a result of uploading a spreadsheet for importing purposes.
4. The design needs to account for being in a standalone dll that is used in other projects.

I was considering the idea of using a Partial View. This would be preferable since it could make calls to the html helper to render my grid and contain the explanatory text.

However, I couldn’t find examples online that really lent themselves to my scenario. So I not confident of the details.

Thanks for input in advance.

Answer 1

1. Explanatory text can be stored in a view model. It’ll be stored in a
   single place and it can easily point to a resource file with
   localization (if needed)
2. Re-factoring. I can’t get into more details as I haven’t seen the code
3. If you opt-in for a partial view, you can render control with @Html.RenderPartial, @Html.EditorFor, @Html.DisplayFor depending on what kind of control this is. In my project I have controls for storing and displaying search criteria. So I have something on the lines of
   @Html.EditorFor(model => model.CategorySearch, "CategorySearch")
4. I’m not sure about a seperate DLL, but if you have a clear seperation between a view and domain model, then you should be able to get away with copying your view model and view related components (e.g. partial view, editor/display templates etc)

I hope this helps