How do I get the fully qualified member name in an EditorTemplate?

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I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 site and I am passing a nested property to an EditorTemplate and building the field name using `ViewData.ModelMetadata.PropertyName` however, this gets the property name of the child property, not the full dot-notation name of the property I'm editing. An example will illustrate best: Given the following types ``` public class EditEntityViewModel { // elided public Entity Entity { get; set} } public class Entity { // elided public string ImageUrl { get; set; } } ``` My Edit and Create views are as follows: ``` @model EditEntityViewModel

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Entity.ImageUrl , "_ImageUploader")

``` The _ImageUploader.cshtml Editor Template is as follows ``` @model System.String

@Html.LabelFor(model => model) @Html.HiddenFor(model => model)

``` The rendered HTML looks like this…

Accepted Answer

Use `@Html.NameFor(model => model)` / `@Html.NameForModel()` instead of `ViewData.ModelMetadata.PropertyName`, this method should give you desired name. It's part of Mvc3Futures package and was added to MVC4.

How do I get the fully qualified member name in an EditorTemplate?

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