Question

I have 2 tables:

1. Categories (int Id, string Title)
2. Works (int categoryId, string WorkTitle, int id)

Table Works has a foreign key (many to single) to Categories table.

I want to have such result:

    Title (id 1)

    WorkTitle (Works.id) | WorkTitle (Works.id) | WorkTitle (Works.id) (this is works in thsi category)


    Title (id 2)

    WorkTitle (Works.id) | WorkTitle (Works.id) | WorkTitle (Works.id) (this is works in thsi category)

......

    Title (id n)

    WorkTitle (Works.id) | WorkTitle (Works.id) | WorkTitle (Works.id)(this is works in thsi category)

What should be Model, View And Controller for do this?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

This should get you started. I’m assuming Entity Framework 4.1 code first. Use the ADO.NET Poco Entity template from NuGet to fill in the database initialization stuff.

Model

public class Category
{
    public virtual int Id { get; set; }
    public virtual string Title { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Work> Works { get; set; }   
}

public class Work
{
    public virtual int Id { get; set; }
    public virtual string Title { get; set; }
}

Controller

public ActionResult Details(int id)
{
    Category c = context.Categories.Single(x=>x.Id == id);
    return View(c);   
}

View

@model ICollection<Category>
@{
    foreach(Category c in Model)
    {
        <h1>@c.Title</h1> (id @c.Id)
        <ul>
        foreach(Work w in c.Works)
        {
           <li>@w.Title (@w.Id)</li>
        }   
        </ul>
    }   
}