Html Helper with multiple Kendo Widgets

[Joey]

Is it possible to create an html helper that uses multiple kendo widgets and styles them?  For instance, a helper that creates an address area.  I should be able to call the helper and bind it to an address object, and use those properties within the object and bind to the different widgets.  Address1 would create a kendo textbox, Address 2 would create another kendo text box, State would bind to a dropdownlist, zip would get a maskedTextBox, etc.. then it would render them all on my page.  I've been looking around but the most i have found is an html helper only creating one widget and returning it, in this case, i would be bringing back about 5-6 kendo widgets.

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Joey,

Instead of creating custom HtmlHelper containing multiple helpers I would recommend to use partial views, because with a custom HtmlHelper you will have to pass the entire configuration for the nested helpers and I am not sure what will be the benefit of the HtmlHelper over the PartialView in this particular case. 

As for the HtmlHelper, you can try something like the following:

public static class MyExtensions
{
    public static System.Web.IHtmlString MyHelper(this HtmlHelper helper, string gridName, string textBox1Name, string textBox2Name)
    {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        result.Append(helper.Kendo().Grid<EmployeeViewModel>().Name(gridName).ToHtmlString());
        result.Append(helper.Kendo().TextBox().Name(textBox1Name).ToHtmlString());
        result.Append(helper.Kendo().TextBox().Name(textBox2Name).ToHtmlString());
        return helper.Raw(result.ToString());
    }
}

@using theCustomExtensionNamespace;
@(Html.MyHelper("gridName", "textBox1", "textBox2"))

Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
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