MVC 3 - Binding to a Complex Type with a List type property

Question

I have a following view model and it will be used by a search control that I\'m working on.

public class SearchViewModel
{
    public SearchViewModel()
    {
            


        

Answer 1

Because you have a static list, you can quickly hack your way to creating markup which will be bound correctly:

@model MyDLL.WebUI.Models.SearchCategoriesViewModel
@{
    var i = 0;
}
@foreach (var c in Model.Categories) 
{
    @Html.Hidden("Categories[" + i.ToString() + "].Id", c.Id);
    @Html.Hidden("Categories[" + i.ToString() + "].Name", c.Name);
    @Html.Label(c.Name);
    @Html.CheckBox("Categories[" + i.ToString() + "].IsSelected",c.IsSelected);
} 

This is a quick and ugly solution. However, I would suggest that you reconsider how you are generating the markup in your partial view.