Question

I think I know the answer, but I would like to bounce around some ideas.

I would like to pass several (in this instance 2) somewhat different pieces of data to a View. My initial thought is simply to wrap-up the various objects into a containing object and pass them along that way. Then from the View, I’d have something like

var objContainer = ViewData.Model; var thisObject = objContainer.ThisObject; var thatObject = objContainer.ThatObject; 

and these could be used independently in the Master Page and View Page.

Is that the ‘best’ way?

Answer 1

I find it useful to create additional classes dedicated that are to be presented to the Views. I keep them in a separate namespace called ‘Core.Presentation’ to keep things organized. Here is an example:

namespace Core.Presentation {     public class SearchPresentation     {         public IList<StateProvince> StateProvinces { get; set; }         public IList<Country> Countries { get; set; }         public IList<Gender> Genders { get; set; }         public IList<AgeRange> AgeRanges { get; set; }     } } 

Then I make sure that my View is a strongly typed view that uses the generic version of that presentation class:

public partial class Search : ViewPage<SearchPresentation> 

That way in the View, I can use Intellisense and easily navigate through the items.