Can you give me any general advice on how to debug ASP.NET MVC Binding?
When everything works as expected, ASP.NET MVC is great. But if something does not, like something doesn't bind for some unknown reason, I find it hard to trace down the problem and find myself spending hours tracking down a seemingly simple problem.
Let's imagine you land in a controller method like this:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ShipmentDetails(Order order)
{
//do stuff
}
Let's further imagine that the Order class looks like this:
public class Order
{
public decimal Total {get; set;}
public Customer Customer {get; set;}
}
public class Customer
{
public string Name {get; set;}
public string Phone {get; set;}
}
What are good places to start when Order in the controller method is not bound correctly? What are good places to start when only parts of the Order are bound correctly?
