What is use of UiHint and FilterUiHint

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What is use of UiHint and FilterUiHint in asp.net mvc

Nikhil Ladva · Answer

Why we use only EditorTemplates this folder name in shared or controller we can write another folder name ? and explain thereason behind of EditorTemplates this folder name..

Dhananjay Kumar · Answer

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

Akash Varshney · Answer

UIHintAttribute Specifies the template or user control that Dynamic Data uses to display a data field. This is the MSDN description of UIHintAttribute. It firstly introduced for Dynamic Data applications and ASP.NET MVC also adapted it. If you annotate a property with UIHint attribute and use EditorFor or DisplayFor inside your views ASP.NET MVC framework will look for the specified template which you specified through UIHintAttribute . The directories it looks for is: For EditorFor : ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates ~/Views/Controller_Name/EditorTemplates For DisplayFor : ~/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates ~/Views/Controller_Name/DisplayTemplates If you are on an area it applies to your area like above as well. Here is the usage sample: public class Person { [ UIHint ( Poo )] public string Name { get ; set ; } } MVC framework will look for partial view named poo under the specified directories if you try to output the model property with EditorFor or DisplayFor like below: @model MyApp . Models . Person My Person h2 > @Html . DisplayFor ( m => m . Name )