modelmetadata

ASP.NET MVC 3 IMetadataAware and custom ModelMetadata attributes

Published on Tuesday, 01 March 2011

UPDATE: I've added a simple example project up on bitbucket to demonstrate the ColorPicker attribute

ASP.NET MVC 3 introduces a new interface, IMetadataAware, for providing additional values to the model metadata at creation time:

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namespace System.Web.Mvc {
    // This interface is implemented by attributes which wish to contribute to the
    // ModelMetadata creation process without needing to write a custom metadata
    // provider. It is consumed by AssociatedMetadataProvider, so this behavior is
    // automatically inherited by all classes which derive from it (notably, the
    // DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider).
    public interface IMetadataAware {
        void OnMetadataCreated(ModelMetadata metadata);
    }
}

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