Question

I have a viewmodel as such:

    namespace Lipton.Areas.Drugs.Models
    {
      public class DrugViewModel
      {
        public string ID { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable<tblDrug> DrugList { get; set; }
      }
    }

The above works fine. The reason why it works is because for tblDrug is in the appropriate namespace:
Lipton.Areas.Drugs.Models. What happens though if I need to add an IEnumerable for another table – tblEmp which is in a totally different namespace (Lipton.Areas.Empl.Models:

    namespace Lipton.Areas.Drugs.Models
    {
      public class DrugViewModel
      {
        public string ID { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable<tblDrug> DrugList { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable<tblEmp> EmpList { get; set; }
      }
    }

How would I modify the above code to work due to the namespace issue?

Answer 1

You add a using directive in order to bring the namespace into scope so that you could directly use the types declared in this namespace without fully qualifying them:

namespace Lipton.Areas.Drugs.Models
{
    using Lipton.Areas.Empl.Models

    public class DrugViewModel
    {
        public string ID { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable<tblDrug> DrugList { get; set; }
        public IEnumerable<tblEmp> EmpList { get; set; }
     }
}

I don’t even know why this question is tagged with asp.net-mvc. That’s basic c#.