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 same razor view, but MVC is only letting me send one model to the view.

@model IEnumerable<Test.Models.Clothes>

Is there a way to send more than one model to a razor view?

If not, what is the normal way to display contents of another model in a view that has already got another model passed to it. Thanks for advice.

Anand · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-16T05:17:42.647

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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 ;

edited Jul 16 '12 at 05:17

answered Jul 16 '12 at 05:10

Anand

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View Model is the preferred approach. – RickAndMSFT Jul 16 '12 at 18:56
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Furthermore it's not a good idea to pass your model (the database object) to the view. Create a ViewModel only with the required fields – Michael Alves Jul 16 '12 at 22:12
Thanks for replay and giving code sample, any chance of expanding on the controller? It doesn't work for me. – user1448260 Jul 18 '12 at 04:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 05:08

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

answered Jul 16 '12 at 05:08

Michael Christensen

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 03 '14 at 09:19

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

Sending more than one model to view MVC 4

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