Question

I am using MVC RC2.

I have Two tables 1)Product (PID, PName, CIDfk); 2)Category(CID, CName);

So i query like these

var Product = from p in dc.Product                        from C in dc.Category                        where p.CIDfk == c.CID                        select new { ProductName = p.PName, ProductCategory = c.CName }; return view(); 

where dc is database context of LINQ-to-SQL class (.dbml);

How do i display in view? where i pass Product? (in viewdata or in ‘return view()’)

Please help me out…

Answer 1

You can both use:

- ViewData['MyName'] = product.SingleOrDefault();  

This way from the view you’d do:

 <% Product p = (Product)ViewData(p) %> 

or populate the model:

ViewData.Model = product.SingleOrDefault(); 

This way from the view you’d do:

<%Product p = ViewData.Model%> //in case of a Strongly typed view <%Product p = (Product)ViewData.Model%> //otherwise 

After populating either ViewData or the Model you can call:

return View(); 

Another approach is calling the View overload that accepts the model as parameter, as tvanfosson said.