Maarten Balliauw 1/11/2010

Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers

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This technical article explains a limitation in ASP.NET MVC 2's templated helpers: the inability to control the display order of form fields. It provides a step-by-step solution by creating a custom OrderAttribute and extending the DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider to read this attribute and sort the fields accordingly, complete with C# code examples.

Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers

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