The EditorTemplates Directory

Having been trying to get a model property to render the appropriate editor in MVC, recently, I was having some trouble getting the editor - provided by a very talented colleague - to render correctly, or, in fact, at all.

Not having been introduced to the structure of the shared directory (it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/ pages) there was an issue with understanding how the Html.EditorFor method would provide my custom editor.

This was solved when I came across David Hayden's blog page:

• http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2009/08/21/HtmlEditorForScaffoldColumnAttribute.aspx

And so I discovered that the control should be placed in the /Shared/EditorTemplates directory. Low and behold, the code you can find on this page worked:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2222743/how-to-pass-an-enum-to-html-radiobuttonfor-to-get-a-list-of-radio-buttons-in-mvc/2230595#2230595