[Solved] Customizing an elements form name

[Jack]

Our company uses a custom binding-scheme with custom element naming. We don't use the default HtmlHelper.ViewContext.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldName to generate element names, but our own. We are now trying to incorporate the Telerik asp.net mvc controls in our site. But the only way so far to let them work with our custom binding is to set the name of each individual element.

Html.Telerik().DatePickerFor(m => m.Date).Name(Html.GetName(m => m.Date))

(Where Html.GetName() uses our custom naming to generate the name)

This 'solution' is obviously not elegant and not very wrist-friendly. In your ViewComponentFactory there is a method GetName(), but it is private.
And I didn't find a way to override the implementation of TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldName().

Is there a way to change the naming of form elements globally, other than custom building Telerik.Mvc.dll from source?

Thanks in advance.

[w.vos]

I solved this issue using a proxy class ( MyOwnViewComponentFactory<TModel> : ViewComponentFactory ).
There is still one problem though. The ComboBox always adds "-input" to its name.
Imho this is not expected behavior, when the name is explicitly set, it should use that name. Or is there some rationale to it?

[w.vos]

> The ComboBox always adds "-input" to its name....

My bad. I wasn't paying attention, it works as expected.