getting the values from a nested complex object that is passed to a partial view

Question

I have a ViewModel that has a complex object as one of its members. The complex object has 4 properties (all strings). I\'m trying to create a re-usable partial view where

Answer 1

You can try passing the ViewModel to the partial.

@model my.path.to.namespace.MyViewModel
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ComplexModel.Name)

Edit

You can create a base model and push the complex model in there and pass the based model to the partial.

public class MyViewModel :BaseModel
{
    public string SomeProperty { get; set; }
}

 public class MyViewModel2 :BaseModel
{
    public string SomeProperty2 { get; set; }
}

public class BaseModel
{
    public MyComplexModel ComplexModel { get; set; }
}
public class MyComplexModel
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    ...
}

Then your partial will be like below :

@model my.path.to.namespace.BaseModel
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ComplexModel.Name)

If this is not an acceptable solution, you may have to think in terms of overriding the model binder. You can read about that here.