Advice with Dynamic Forms in ASP.NET MVC

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I am working on rendering a dynamic form in an ASP.NET MVC view that will meet these requirements: - Fields can be validated - State is preserved when the form is invalid I am looking into creating a custom model binder to achieve this. I am generally planning to do this: - Form fields are defined with these properties - Prompt (label next to fields) - Type (text, checkboxlist, radiolist, etc.) - Choices (for list fields) - IsRequired - RegularExpression (for text fields) - Display Options - Collection of field definitions are sent from the controller to the view - Fields are rendered into HTML and sent to the browser - Form is sent back to the server - A custom model binder binds the form to a collection of field definitions that now contains the submitted values - Each field is validated - If required -> must have a value - If RegEx -> must match - For each invalid field, an error message is added to modelstate - The controller decides what to do - If all fields are valid - Do whate…

Accepted Answer

I wrote a class library that basically does exactly what my psuedocode in my question describes. It works great.

EDIT:

I finally got around to cleaning up my class library. I have added some new features and created a fairly well documented demo web application.

All of this is hosted here on CodePlex. I hope this helps someone.

Advice with Dynamic Forms in ASP.NET MVC

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