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    copied!<p>I am having a trouble while trying to create an entity with a custom view modeled create form. Below is my custom view model for Category Creation form.</p> <pre><code>public class CategoryFormViewModel { public CategoryFormViewModel(Category category, string actionTitle) { Category = category; ActionTitle = actionTitle; } public Category Category { get; private set; } public string ActionTitle { get; private set; } } </code></pre> <p>and this is my user control where the UI is</p> <pre><code>&lt;%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl&lt;CategoryFormViewModel&gt;" %&gt; &lt;h2&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;%= Html.Encode(Model.ActionTitle) %&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h2&gt; &lt;%=Html.ValidationSummary() %&gt; &lt;% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="bold block"&gt;Başlık:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;%=Html.TextBoxFor(model =&gt; Model.Category.Title, new { @class = "width80 txt-base" })%&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="bold block"&gt;Sıra Numarası:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;%=Html.TextBoxFor(model =&gt; Model.Category.OrderNo, new { @class = "width10 txt-base" })%&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;input type="submit" class="btn-admin cursorPointer" value="Save" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;% } %&gt; </code></pre> <p>When i click on save button, it doesnt bind the category for me because of i am using custom view model and strongly typed html helpers like that</p> <pre><code>&lt;%=Html.TextBoxFor(model =&gt; Model.Category.OrderNo) %&gt; </code></pre> <p>My html source looks like this</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="/Admin/Categories/Create" method="post"&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="bold block"&gt;Başlık:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;input class="width80 txt-base" id="Category_Title" name="Category.Title" type="text" value="" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;span class="bold block"&gt;Sıra Numarası:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;input class="width10 txt-base" id="Category_OrderNo" name="Category.OrderNo" type="text" value="" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;input type="submit" class="btn-admin cursorPointer" value="Kaydet" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>How can i fix this?</p>
 

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