Looping through view Model properties in a View

Question

I have a painfully simple view model

public class TellAFriendViewModel
{
    public string Email1 { get; set; }
    public string Email2 { get; set; }
    public string Email3 { get; set; }
    public string Email4 { get; set; }
    public string Email5 { get; set; }
}

And then the corresponding inputs on my view, but I'm wondering if there is a better way (such as a loop) to write similar TextBoxes to my view:

@using (Html.BeginForm()){
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    @Html.TextBoxFor(vm => vm.Email1)
    @Html.TextBoxFor(vm => vm.Email2)
    @Html.TextBoxFor(vm => vm.Email3)
    @Html.TextBoxFor(vm => vm.Email4)
    @Html.TextBoxFor(vm => vm.Email5)
}

Answer 1

You should access

ViewData.ModelMetadata.Properties. No reason to double the reflection effort, plus it figures out DataAttributes metadata for you.

@foreach(var property in ViewData.ModelMetadata.Properties)
{
    <div class="editor-line">
        <label>@(property.DisplayName??property.PropertyName)</label>
        @Html.Editor(property.PropertyName)
    </div>
}

Answer 2

You should consider using an array.

However, if you wanted to go with reflection, it would look like this:

@foreach (var prop in Model.GetType().GetProperties())
{
    @(Html.TextBox(prop.Name, prop.GetValue(Model, null)))
}