ASP.Net MVC multiple inheritance in a View

Question

I'm trying to figure out if its possible to have multiple inheritance in a view in ASP.Net MVC. Right now I'm trying to print out a list of entries from two different tables from my model in a single View. I have the following line at the top of my view:

Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<List<GEApproval.Models.CoursePrefix>>"

But I also want to include the table Course as follows:

Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<List<GEApproval.Models.Course>>"

I'm not sure how this can be accomplished, any help or suggestions are appreciated.

UPDATE:

Thank you all for your help, I went ahead and created a composite class as follows:

    namespace GEApproval.Models
{
    public class Listings: GEApproval.Models.CoursePrefix, GEApproval.Models.ICourse
    {
        public List<CoursePrefix> CoursePrefixObjList { get; set; }
        public List<Course> CourseObjList { get; set; }
        private GEApprovalDataModel _db;

        //Constructor
        public Listings()
        {
            _db = new GEApprovalDataModel();
        }

        //Generate a list of all courses associated with the prefix and place in ViewData model
        public void listCourses(ViewDataDictionary viewData, int prefixID)
        {
            var test = _db.CoursePrefix.Include("Course").First(cp => cp.id == 1);
            //Show total courses for this prefix
            viewData.Model = test.Course.ToList();
            viewData["prefix"] = test.Prefix;
            viewData["courseCount"] = test.Course.Count;
            int courseCount = test.Course.Count();//Test
        }

    }
}

And in my view, I now have the following line:

Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<List<GEApproval.Models.Listings>>"

I'm still a little confused because I still cannot access the properties of the Course object when listing them in my view, because I'm only inheriting directly from CoursePrefix. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Do I need to have a constructor for the composite object? Do I need the inherit and implementation statements for CoursePrefix and ICourse respectively if I'm already, supposedly, exposing the properties of each within the Listings wrapper class??

Answer 1

Create a ViewModel class that has properties that expose both sets of data. Bind to that instead.

Answer 2

You model can only contain one object. If you have multiple objects you need for your view you will have to create a composite object.

This can be as simple as exposing multiple properties that match the object types needed in the view.

public class ModelObj
{
   public List<CoursePrefix> CoursePrefixObjList {get; set;}
   public List<Course> CourseObjList {get; set;}
}

Then just use your ModelObj in the view

Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<ModelObj>"