LINQ Anonymous Types + MVC Views

Question

I\'ve seen many questions about this, but i\'ve never really got the answer that I need.

I\'m converting a fairly large web application from Web Forms to MVC and af

Answer 1

Rather than an anonymous type, create a type to hold the name and date:

public class NameDate
{
  public string Name { get; set; }
  public DateTime Date { get; set; }
}

Then use that in your Linq query:

from p in db.Products select new NameDate { Name = p.Name, Date = p.Date }

Strongly type your view to be MyView> and then just do a foreach ( var nameDate in ViewData.Model )...