Comments on: Opinionated Input Builders – Part 8 the Auto Form

By: colinjack

colinjack — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:30:02 +0000

@erichexter
Any idea as to the schedule for getting this into MVC Contrib?

By: erichexter

erichexter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:55:28 +0000

@Tad, I do not know how much of the C# 3.0 expression syntax is available. I would give it a try and see what happens. Let me know I would be interested in learning more about what are the problems with porting this.

By: Tad

Tad — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:22:07 +0000

Hi, I’m interested if it will work on Mono platform, any thoughts?

By: Jake Scott

Jake Scott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:43:54 +0000

This is awesome, it is so cool that there is soo much action happening in the .net web development space!

By: erichexter

erichexter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:10:53 +0000

@Bill I need to get the ordering of the Properties into a convention. That will allow the opinions to be set and modified if you opinions differ from mine. Absolutely agree that a dertminisitic way of order the properties needs to be addressed.

@Mohamed. The source is located in Part 3. I have not yet committed this to codeplex, I am still getting feedback but the source is available and I expect to still make some changes to how it works.

By: Mohamed Meligy

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:02:06 +0000

Is this somewhere on codeplex yet ?

By: Bill Barry

Bill Barry — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:00:48 +0000

btw, you could pretty easily add in sorting to put the input elements in order:

public class MyModel {
[Sort(1)]
[Required]
public string Name {get;set;}
…
}

then in the loop do a Schwartzian Transform sorting by the value of the Sort property (http://jcheng.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/schwartzian-transform-in-c-30/).

Note: Currently your model will be rendered in the order which it is defined in source, but this is not guaranteed by the compiler or by the semantics of the GetProperties method.