ASP .NET MVC How to increase the width of an inputfield with @Html.EditorFor

I just cant fix something that seems so easy.
I want a textbox (editorfor) for a model property and I would like to increase its width but nothing is happening. I’m using the code as listed below. I tried setting the width to 500px but nothing happens. Ideally I would like the textbox to stretch over the full width of the container. Any ideas?

Calling an asp.net console application from my asp.net mvc web application

I have created an asp.net console application using visual studio 2012, the console application is a sync job between our ERP system and our custom Database. now i need this sync job to run on timely basis , so i created a new task under our windows task scheduler , which calls the console application each hour, which works well.

Publishing MVC app that uses python script

I currently have MVC project that calls python script via Process (new processStartinfo(“/path/to/python.exe”, ” /path/to/script.py”). Which works perfectly fine in visual studio.
When i publish this on azure how will it be able to call python.exe? (Im probably not constructing this question accurately since this is my very first web to publish and do not have full understanding of publishing)

Get same instance of a component registered with Autofac as InstancePerLifetimeScope in Global.asax methods as is injected into a controllers?

I have a situation where I need to manually instantiate some objects in Application_BeginRequest that are dependent on some of the same components that I’ve registered with Autofac. I’d like to use the same instances of components that I’ve registered with Autofac with InstancePerLifetimeScope for injection into my MVC and WebAPI controllers. My config for both MVC and Web API works as expected, and an example of a component registration looks like so: