CHAPTER 22
Templated Helper Methods
The HTML helpers that I looked at in the previous chapter, such as Html.CheckBoxFor and Html.TextBoxFor, generate a specific type of element, which means that I have to decide in advance what kinds of elements should be used to represent model properties and to manually update the views if the type of a property changes.
In this chapter, I demonstrate the templated helper methods, with which I specify the property I 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 attention ...
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