Sending more than one model to view MVC 4

Question

I have two model classes, each is a table in a database. One model is called \'Clothes\' and the other \'Shoes\'.

I want to display the contents of each table in the sa

Answer 1

Either make a view model class which has both the class as its object. It would be then type safe.

public class ViewModelForDisplay
{
       public Clothes Clothes {get; set;}
       public Shoes Shoes {get; set;}
}

//on Controller
Clothes objClothes = GetClothes();
Shoes objShoes = GetShoes();

ViewModelForDisplay objViewModel = new ViewModelForDisplay() {Clothes = objClothes, Shoes= objShoes }

The other easy way to do it by using ViewBag.It uses the dynamic feature that was added in to C# 4. It allows an object to dynamically have properties added to it. Its also Type Safe

ViewBag.Shoes= objShoes ;
ViewBag.Clothes= objClothes ;

You could also use ViewData to pass objects to html. BUt this would not be type safe. It requires casting

ViewData["Clothes "] = objClothes ;
ViewData["Shoes "] = objShoes ;

Answer 2

I have found this article very interesting :

https://workspaces.codeproject.com/user-10826818/using-multiple-models-in-a-view-in-asp-net-mvc-4

It presents different ways to send multiple models to a view :

• ViewData
• ViewBag
• PartialView
• TempData
• ViewModel
• Tuple

Answer 3

Make your own class aka View Model and have it composed of both models.