Question

I have a generic list List<T> and I want to create a view that iterates the list and spits out the output.

I’m coming up against a couple of issues:

• I don’t know how to get my view.aspx to understand T
• I don’t know how to get it to render the correct partial for T

For instance, if I pass in a list of CustomObject1 then I want to render the partial CustomObject1.ascx and if I pass in a list of CustomObject2 the I want to render the partial CustomObject2.ascx.

Is there a simple way to do this that I’ve overlooked? I don’t want to have a different aspx for every type of list I want to use, I’m just generating a of items after all. So it’s a waste to have 15 different views to cover each type of list I’m going to need to use.

Any ideas or solutions would be gratefully received.

Answer 1

If your names are always going to match (CustomObject1 then I want to render the partial CustomObject1.ascx), then you could use the type name. So:

void MyMethod(List<T> items)
{
    foreach(T item in items)
    {
        Html.RenderPartial(item.GetType().Name, item);
    }
}