Remove Prefix from ViewModel in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I have a ViewModel class composed of several nested classes:

 public class UserAccountViewModel : UserProfileViewModel
    {
        public UserAccountEmailViewModel UserAccountEmail { get; set; }
        public UserAccountLocationViewModel UserAccountLocation { get; set; }
        public UserAccountPasswordViewModel UserAccountPassword { get; set; }
    }

The HTML rendered from this (pay attention to model.UserAccountEmail.Email ):

<div class="editor-label">
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.UserAccountEmail.Email)
    </div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.UserAccountEmail.Email)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.UserAccountEmail.Email)
    </div>

Is this:

name="UserAccountEmail.Email"

I would prefer the name to simply be Email

Changing ViewData.TemplateInfo.HtmlFieldPrefix didn't help. Overloading the htmlFieldName in @Html.EditorFor isn't going to work because I still want the label and validation message to match the rendered HTML element (no overload for htmlFieldName in these functions).

I'd prefer to not create partials for this.

Edit:

Meh...using partials actually isn't too bad. It actually makes quite a lot of sense.

Answer 1

See my answer here about this design, it might make sense for this particular strategy

Many models to view with many partial views