Question

I am currently learning ASP.NET MVC so please excuse my question if it has been asked or seems rather simple, but if I could get some help I would greatly appreciate it.

I am trying to return two different repositories to the View. I am going through ASP.NET MVC’s tutorials and I thought I would try taking it a step further. I can display Movies from the Movie table in the database just fine but I also want to display data from the Actors table on the same as well and I am not sure how to go about doing this. For displaying the Movies I was following the Repository pattern.

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Create a new class that has both a list of Movies and Actors in it:

public class MoviesAndActorsModel {     public IList<Movie> Movies { get; set; }     public IList<Actor> Actors { get; set; } } 

Then, in your controller action, instantiate an object of type MoviesAndActorsModel that is populated from your repository:

public ActionResult List() {     MoviesAndActorsModel model = new MoviesAndActorsModel();      model.Movies = _repository.GetMovies();     model.Actors = _repository.GetActors();      return View(model); } 

Now make sure your view inherits from ViewPage<MoviesAndActorsModel> and you should be able to access both the movies and actors like so:

<% foreach (Movie movie in Model.Movies) { %>     <%= movie.Title %> <% } %>  <% foreach (Actor actor in Model.Actors) { %>     <%= actor.Name %> <% } %>