Question

I am using the following ViewModel to create an Employee

public class EmployeeViewModel
{
   Employee employee{ get; set; }
   Budget budget { get; set; }
}

How can I access the properties of Employee object inside my view? I would like to do something like

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Employee.EmployeeID)

Answer 1

You start by having a controller action that will pass this model to the view:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    EmployeeViewModel model = ...
    return View(model);
}

then you have a corresponding view which is strongly typed to this model and in which you will be able to access the properties of this view model:

@model EmployeeViewModel
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.EditorFor(x => x.employee.EmployeeID)
    <button type="submit">OK</button>
}