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    <p><strong><em>Update (21st Sept 2016)</em></strong> <em>- Thanks to Digbyswift for commenting that this solution still works in MVC5 also.</em></p> <p><strong><em>Update (30th April 2012)</em></strong> <em>- Note to people stumbling across this question from searches etc - the accepted answer is not how I ended up doing this - but I left it accepted because it might have worked in some cases. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/4316327/157701">My own answer contains the final solution I used</a>, which is reusable and will apply to any project.</em></p> <p><em>It's also confirmed to work in v3 and v4 of the MVC framework.</em></p> <p>I have the following model type (the names of the class and its properties have been changed to protect their identities):</p> <pre><code>public class MyExampleModel { public string[] LongPropertyName { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>This property is then bound to a bunch (>150) of check boxes, where each one's input name is of course <code>LongPropertyName</code>.</p> <p>The form submits to url with an HTTP GET, and say the user selects three of those checkboxes - the url will have the query string <code>?LongPropertyName=a&amp;LongPropertyName=b&amp;LongPropertyName=c</code></p> <p>Big problem then is that if I select all (or even just over half!) the checkboxes, I exceed the maximum query string length enforced by the request filter on IIS!</p> <p>I do not want to extend that - so I want a way to trim down this query string (I know I can just switch to a POST - but even so I still want to minimize the amount of fluff in the data sent by the client).</p> <p>What I want to do is have the <code>LongPropertyName</code> bound to simply 'L' so the query string would become <code>?L=a&amp;L=b&amp;L=c</code> but <strong><em>without changing the property name in code</em></strong>.</p> <p>The type in question already has a custom model binder (deriving from DefaultModelBinder), but it's attached to its base class - so I don't want to put code in there for a derived class. All the property binding is currently performed by the standard DefaultModelBinder logic, which I know uses TypeDescriptors and Property Descriptors etc from System.ComponentModel.</p> <p>I was kinda hoping that there might be an attribute I could apply to the property to make this work - is there? Or should I be looking at implementing <code>ICustomTypeDescriptor</code>?</p>
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