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Creating dynamic checkbox from list

I have a form that has the following objects listed:
public string Title {get;set;}
public string Description {get;set;}
public List<Items> Items {get;set;}
I am trying to create a form that allows for the items to be shown as checkboxes, with the ability to select as many as you want before submitting. The issue is I can't seem to find a clean way of doing this. I have tried using CheckboxFor but I am not sure this is the correct use case.

Hiding/Showing properties and ordering properties in MVC

I am about to upgrade our software from ASP.NET WebForms to .NET MVC. All over the web it shows how to create a view based on a model, which is fine.
In this project the users can hide properties of the model to generate a view suitable for them, yet another client in another website and hide other properties.
The code is all the same, but i would like to know if there is a way to hide/show properties of a model based on a condition easily, hopefully without having a lot of IF statements all over my views.
Example - How can 1 client see only name and town, yet another client see all 3 properties. Just need to show based on a condition.
public class MyObject() {
public property name { get; set; };
public property town { get; set; };
public property customText { get; set; }
public MyObject() {}
}
NOTE: Users can also determine the order of these properties, can i do that as well easily ?
Just to say that creating separate views is not possible. The above is a very simple example of a model with properties. Our models can have about 100 properties, and the user can turn these on and off whenever they like, so it needs to be able to be done dynamically
Is there a way of creating a ViewModel on the fly?
Thanks in advance

Create a Property class or similar and model you data appropriately:
public class Property
{
public string Name {get;set;}
public bool Visible {get;set;}
public int Order {get;set;}
}
Then your view model can be similar to your example:
public class ViewModel
{
public Property Name {get;set;}
public Property Town {get;set;}
public Property CustomText {get;set;}
}

Well you cannot bind multiple models to your view.Obviously you have to do workaround in your view based on user roles.
Or else create a seperate model and view for each user roles.

I have been working on a project called Dynamic MVC.
http://dynamicmvc.com
It currently does not do what your asking. The functionality is already there, it is just not exposed the way you need it. However, if you are interested I will add the functionality so you can pass the properties you want to display in the querystring. Eventually, a customizable dynamic view will generate your page for you without any coding required. Also, the order of the properties would determine the order on your page. This would work for any model with the DynamicEntity attribute.
Let me know if your interested and I can include it in the next release.

MVC3: Binding models to dynamically created html elements

I have a model which contains lists of other models, which also contains lists of other model types like the following for example:
public class Report
{
public string ReportId {get; set;}
public List<ReportOutput> ReportOutputs;
}
//output types = PDf, csv, txt, etc.
public class ReportOutput
{
public int OutputType {get; set;}
public List<DeliveryMethod> DeliveryMethods;
}
//delivery methods = email, ftp, etc.
public class DeliveryMethod
{
public string MethodName {get; set;}
}
I have a view that dynamically creates elements based on the contents of these objects using jQuery. The view allows users to check checkboxes to add or remove different outputs and within each output, different delivery methods. I need to know how to get the information back to the controller to load into a model to send back to the database. From reading around, it seems that I would just need to instantiate a model in the controller, then give each element in the view a name which corresponds to the model's properties and than call the controller function to retrieve all the data and continue the saving with the newly filled model, but my attempts at creating this controller function have failed.
So my question is, how would I create the controller function and do I just need to use the corresponding names on the html elements to allow a model to be created based on the information on the view?

If you follow the below pattern in generating name of form fields, the default model binder will take care of the rest else you have to do the model binding process yourself (tough job!).
ReportId,
ReportOutputs[0].OutputType,
ReportOutputs[0].DeliveryMethods[0].MethodName,
ReportOutputs[0].DeliveryMethods[1].MethodName,
ReportOutputs[1].OutputType,
ReportOutputs[1].DeliveryMethods[0].MethodName,

You should checkout the following article which covers those subjects and explains the naming conventions of your input fields that the default model binder expects so that it can bind them back when the form is submitted.

Monotouch set properties not keeping property values

In my MonoDevelop project I have an iPhone app. I have two different views. Each view contains a UITable. For view 1 I have class 1 hooked to the UITable as Datasource 1. For View 2 I have a class 2 hooked up as Datasource 2. Both classes (i.e. Datasources) feed the tables with data. View 2 also has a custom cell and because of this loads asynchronous.
I get the data from 2 XML files using linq to XML. Everything works and the data loads great. What I need to do know is to load data in Datasource 2 based on the selection made in View 1. To do this I need to pass an ID from view 1 to Class(Datasource) 2. Problem.
I have tried just about everything I know but I just can't get it right.
The correct solution according to me:
I have created another class called SelectedRound with two properties. Code:
using System;
namespace xxxxx
{
public class SelectedRound
{
public string RoundID { get; set; }
public string Date { get; set; }
}
}
When I set RoundID in class 1 then I can access it in class 1. Trying to access it in class 2 however, returns nothing or null. Why would this happen? Could it be because Class(Datasource) 2 is loading asynchronously? Should I instantiate the SelectedRound class in some global way? If so how? AppDelegate maybe? (I am struggling to do that as well).
It seems pointless to me that setting and getting a simple string variable is difficult.

This feels like it is all about how you are passing the SelectedRound instance from the first view to the second.
As a very quick and dirty solution you could just use a singleton or could just use a static class:
public static class SelectedRound
{
public static string RoundID {get;set;}
public static string Date {get;set;}
}
For a more sophisticated pattern, then try overriding the constructors of one or both of your two view controllers in order to pass them a shared instance of your non-static class.
The view controllers may feel foreign to you right now - but they are just c# classes - so feel free to extend them by writing overrides, new methods and properties.

Form elements and logic within a partial view

I have a number of forms on my site, all of which are vastly different. There will however be an element which is shared by all - a few text boxes and a validation message depending on the input.
I'm using asp.net MVC3 and in the interests of code-reuse, I'd like to put this shared element into a partial view which will be included in every form. This partial view will have to perform the logic to check the input and display a validation message accordingly.
Does anyone have any pointers on how I can do this? Thanks in advance.

Create a ViewModel for your common view Say
public class CommonViewModel
{
public bool IsValid {get;set;}
public string Message {get;set;}
}
Now Say for some other ViewModel
public class MyOtherViewModel
{
public CommonViewModel CommonViewModel {get;set;}
//Other Properties here
}
Now from MyOtherView.cshtml you can render the partial view easily, passing the values from main view
#model MyOtherViewModel
#Html.Partial("commonView",Model.CommonViewModel)
I hope this should help you to start with.
cheers

I am writing a rough code, please correct accordingly.
Use a Parital View and write code as below.
#Html.BeginForm('actionname',controller)
{
#Html.TextBox('abc')
}
then create a method in your controller like
[Post]
Public ActionResult ActionName()
{
}
put this partialview in any of you page.