What does the EditForm's Context property actually do?

Question

The standard EditForm has a Context property. What does this property actually do and how should it be used?

The official docs mention EditContext. There is no mention of Context.

Answer 1

It provides the name you can use to reference the instance of the EditContext the EditForm holds. If you pass in a Model it will also have created it.

In the contrived example below I've added some rather ugly code to show how you could use it.

<EditForm Context="xxx" Model="_model">
    @{
        EditContext mycontext = xxx;
        mycontext.Validate();
    };
</EditForm>