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    <p>I would like to know people's thoughts on the best way to do the opposite to <a href="http://haacked.com/archive/2008/10/23/model-binding-to-a-list.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Phil Haack's Model Binding To A List</a>. I have a form which contains several individual fields as well as form fields which are created dynamically using JQuery. This means that when I query the database for something to edit, it will return an object which in itself will have n number of objects (each the same) attached to it.</p> <p>I would like to know what people would suggest as the best way to create the "dynamic" parts of the forms and, in particular, ensure that the correct items are selected for the drop down lists. I have a vague idea that it will involve View User Controls but I am struggling with how to put it all together.</p> <p>The form:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="/MyItems/Edit" method="post"&gt; Title: &lt;input type="text" name="Title" value="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Description &lt;input type="text" name="Description" value="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="myItem.Index" value="0" /&gt; &lt;input id="item[0].Amount" name="item[0].Amount" type="text" value="" /&gt; &lt;select id="item[0].selectA"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;select id="item[0].selectB"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="myItem.Index" value="1" /&gt; &lt;input id="item[1].Amount" name="item[1].Amount" type="text" value="" /&gt; &lt;select id="item[1].selectA"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;select id="item[1].selectB"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="myItem.Index" value="2" /&gt; &lt;input id="item[2].Amount" name="item[2].Amount" type="text" value="" /&gt; &lt;select id="item[2].selectA"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;select id="item[2].selectB"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>Everything from the hidden input to the end of the second select list could be repeated n times. The DTO that is being hydrated from the database query looks like the following:</p> <pre><code>public class MyItem { public string Name { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } public IEnumerable&lt;SelectItem&gt; SelectItems { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>Each <code>SelectItem</code> then looks like:</p> <pre><code>public class SelectItem { public int SelectA { get; set; } public int SelectA { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>I hope I have explained this ok, thanks in advance for anyone taking the time to have a look at this.</p>
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