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Reputation: 51

HiddenInput Attribute Missing in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations

I have a domain model in a DLL that I want to keep separate from my main ASP.NET MVC project.

I want to decorate the properties in this model with metadata attributes (such as DisplayName, UIHint, DataType, etc.). This is so that I can call EditorForModel to have these properties properly rendered in my ASP.NET MVC View.

Most of the attributes are available in the namespace System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations but to my surprise, [HiddenInput] is NOT part of this namespace. It seems that [HiddenInput] is only in System.Web.Mvc (which I cannot reference from my stand-alone domain model DLL).

My domain model is in its own separate DLL class, and I don't want to move it inside my ASP.NET MVC project.

What other solutions do I have if I want to flag certain attributes in this model as "hidden" so that EditorForModel can recognize it (and hide it) when rendering the view?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 658

Answers (1)

Slicksim
Slicksim

Reputation: 7172

You could try the UiHintAttribute that resides in the DataAnnotations namespace

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.uihintattribute(v=vs.110).aspx

[UIHint("Hidden")]
public int ID { get; set; }

HTH

Upvotes: 1

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