MVC model for objects

Question

I am trying to track Workers in my database.

I have an entity class:

[Table(Name = "Employees")]
public class Employee
{
    [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
    [Column(IsPrimaryKey = true, IsDbGenerated = true, AutoSync = AutoSync.OnInsert)]
    public int EmployeeID { get; set; }

    [Column]
    [Required]
    public string FirstName { get; set; }

    [Column]
    [Required]
    public string LastName { get; set; }

    [Column]
    [Required]
    public string Email { get; set; }
}

I am trying to create a page to add an employee to the database. So I created a ViewModel:

public class EmployeesAddViewModel
{
    public Employee employee { get; set; }        
}

I created a ViewModel like this because I plan to add other things to the model later that are not in the Employees table. I just wanted to start with this to make sure everything is working correctly.

And I have my page:

<%@ Page Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<EmployeesAddViewModel>" ... %>

<% using (Html.BeginForm("Add", "Employees", FormMethod.Post)) { %>
    <%: Html.EditorForModel() %>
    <input type="submit" value="Save" />
<% } %>

But when I look at my page, it does not show any form fields for my model, it does not show anything.

Do I need to have fields in my model for each field of an entity, instead of having only the entire Employee class in my model? I do not know what I am doing wrong here.

Answer 1

Html.EditorFor(m => m.Employee)

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