I've got a couple of questions about the naming convention for the DisplayTemplates and EditorTemplates in MVC 2.
If for example I have a customer object with a child list of account how do I:
Create a display template for the list of accounts, what is the file called?
When I'm doing a foreach( var c in Model.Accounts ) how do I call a display temple while in the foreach loop? When I do Html.DisplayFor( x => x ) inside the foreach x is the model and not in this case c.
Thanks in advance.
Yeah, this is one of my favorite features, but it's a bit confusing for some things.
So, creating a template for any class, the name is based on the type's Name property, so for example if you do a <%= model.GetType().Name %> in your view, you can see what I mean. As an example, if your list of accounts is an IList, then the call to .Name on the type would return List`1. That's a legal file name, so if you put List`1.ascx in your DisplayTemplates folder, it'll find it and use it. from what I can tell, it won't traverse the class hierarchy, though, so for example if you put an IEnumerable`1.ascx file in there, it won't find it.
To display in a loop, you need to pass in the item variable into the lambda, so in your example:
<% foreach (var c in Accounts){ %>
<li><%= Html.DisplayFor(x => c) %></li>
<%}%>
Hope that helps. Paul