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I am trying to use Expression> expression, sent in to my helper class.

I want to pull the value form it and render it in a html string. I can't seem to get it working i currently have:

public static MvcHtmlString TextboxGroupStaticFor(

this HtmlHelper html,

Expression> expression,

BootstrapInputSizes? width = BootstrapInputSizes.Defalut

)

{

var placeholder = string.Empty;

if (html.ViewData.ModelMetadata.AdditionalValues.ContainsKey("placeholder"))

{

placeholder = html.ViewData.ModelMetadata.AdditionalValues["placeholder"] as string;

}

var sb = new StringBuilder();

sb.AppendLine("

");

sb.AppendLine(html.LabelFor(expression).ToHtmlString());

sb.AppendLine("

" + " " + "

");

sb.AppendLine("

");

return new MvcHtmlString(sb.ToString());

}

Called using: @Html.TextboxGroupStaticFor(x=> x.Name);

But can't work out how to do expression.value or something like that?

UPDATE

I found this works

Func method = expression.Compile();

TProperty value = method(html.ViewData.Model);

Is this a good way e.g performance wise?