Question

i am working/tweaking the default install of asp.net mvc 4 .. added some views ..

and when i try to pass a model to my view, that model (name and namespace) gets written out to page.

@Model Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Directory";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

when i view my page, i see

Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel

written out twice at the top of the page..

my controller just initializes the model and passes it inside the view..

also i noticed that this happens within @RenderBody() called form _layout.. so i am assuming it is done somewhere in my view..

even if i comment out all code on my view (accept the declaration above) i still see this string written out.

Answer 1

Change

@Model Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel

to

@model Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel

The @model directive with lower case m tells razor what is the type of the model.

On the other hand @Model with upper case M just calls ToString on the view’s Model property and writes the string in the response.

That is why

 @Model Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel

Ouptuts: Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel

First it writes the the ToString of the Model and the rest of the line Blah.Web.UI.Models.DirectoryModel as plain text.