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Pro ASP.NET MVC 4, Fourth Edition
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Pro ASP.NET MVC 4, Fourth Edition

by Adam Freeman
January 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
756 pages
19h 59m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 20

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Templated Helper Methods

The HTML helpers that we looked at in the previous chapter, such as Html.CheckBoxFor and Html.TextBoxFor generate a specific type of element, which means that we have to decide in advance what kinds of elements should be used to represent model properties and to manually update our views if the type of a property changes.

In this chapter, we demonstrate the templated helper methods, with which we specify the property we want displayed and let the MVC Framework figure out what HTML elements are required. This is a more flexible approach to displaying data to the user, although it requires some initial care and ...

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