Using Editable attribute on MVC 3 view model

Question

I\'m looking to use attributes to mark view model properties as readonly so that the view fields are read only in the rendered view. Applying System.ComponentModel.DataAnnot

Answer 1

Found that the use of Editable instead Readonly on the model works exactly the same.

[ReadOnly(true)] //or
[Editable(false)]
public string Name { get; set; }

This syntax does work when interrogating a property attribute on the view itself. Also works when attribute is Editable(true)

@if (ViewData.ModelMetadata.Properties.Where(p => p.PropertyName == "Name").First().IsReadOnly)
{ 
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, new { style = "width:190px; background-color: #ffffd6", @readonly =  "readonly" })
} 
else
{
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, new { style = "width:190px; " })
}

Using an editor template here a simple string template:

@model String
@{
IDictionary htmlAttributes = new Dictionary();
if (ViewData.ModelMetadata.IsReadOnly) //this will be looking at the actual property not the complete model
{
htmlAttributes.Add("style", "width:100px; background-color:#ffffd6");
htmlAttributes.Add("readonly", "readonly");
@Html.TextBox("", Model, htmlAttributes)
}