Any sort of “Hidden” attribute in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations?

Question

I'm trying to write a dynamic control in Microsoft MVC that lets me edit the entity in a grid (specifically using jqgrid). Well, I build my columns and colmodels in my controller based on the entity I'm trying to modify. I'd like to have a way to mark a column as a hidden column, but I'd like to not just create arbitrary Attributes if a standard one already exists. So I'm looking through System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations which has a lot of good things in it, but not what I'm looking for. Does such an attribute exist? Thanks!

Answer 1

How about using DisplayAttribute.AutoGenerateField ? You could set that to false when you want to not autogen UI for that property.

Answer 2

You also might check out

http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2010/06/14/a-closer-look-at-the-hiddeninput-attribute-in-mvc-2.aspx

Note that it's in the System.Web.Mvc namespace--

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.hiddeninputattribute.aspx

Answer 3

I just stumbled across this and couldn't use the suggested solution because I don't have .NET 4 available for this project.

So ended up using the EditorBrowsableAttribute , which also controls eg the visibility of properties in the Visual Studio Designer and IntelliSense:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8a045wyx(v=VS.80).aspx

It's available since .NET 1.0.