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c# mvc model vs viewbag

Suppose you have a list of People A and a list of People B in a page. And these two are seperate classes in L2S, representing two different tables. Therefore, you cannot pass a single model as follows:

...
@model PeopleA
...
@foreach(var peopleA in Model.People) ...

@foreach(var peopleB in //what?)

Accordingly, I guess, I have three options to follow.

  • The first one is to devide the page into partial views so that I can pass a model through RenderAction helper. Since I will use these partial views only once this option does not seem attracting to me.
  • The second option would be to use ViewBags which I don't want to since I prefer strongly typed models.
  • The last one, finally, which I was about to use but wanted to ask before doing so, is to create a model as the following:

ModelMyPage.cs

public List<PeopleA> peopleA { get; set; }
public List<PeopleB> peopleB { get; set; }

MyController.cs

... 
ModelMyPage m = new ModelMyPage();
m.peopleA = // query
m.peopleB = // another query
return(m);

And you got the idea. Is this the valid way to accomplish my task or is there a better c# way to do what I want?

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Shaokan Avatar asked Jul 08 '11 14:07

Shaokan


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2 Answers

Creating a ViewModel specific to the page, as your option 3 is the way I would do it.

I believe this is also the recommended approach.

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Oded Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 17:10

Oded


No, there is not any better idea. In asp.net MVC, M stands for ViewModels, not the Business, Domain models. It is recommended to create ViewModels for your views and it's not reccomended to use Business Models. You should design your ViewModels to fit the need of controller interactions with Domain, and from controller to view interactions

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archil Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 15:10

archil