Question

I am new in MVC3. When i create a strongly typed view it use this code at top on the view code file

@model MonoPoly.Models.LandDocument

so it means that view can use all property from that Model class (here this LandDocument model class). But my question is how can i user more model class as a strongly typed for this single view file ? OR how should i can call other model class property in this view which is already strongly typed with that LandDocument Model class ?

Sorry for my bad English.

Answer 1

One approach is to create a ViewModel object that contains all the objects you would like to reference in your view. See the details of how to implement the ViewModel pattern on Steve Michelotti’s blog: Pattern 2 – Dedicated view model that contains the domain model object

For example, if you wanted both the LandDocument class and a Player class, you could create a ViewModel like this:

public class BoardViewModel
{
    public LandDocument LandDocument { get; set; }
    public Player LandOwner { get; set; }
}

and then at the top of your view:

@model MonoPoly.ViewModels.BordViewModel

You would access the data in your view with like this, for example:

@Model.LandDocument.LandDocumentId