Question

I’m learning MVC 3 and i’ve got a problem with one thing.

I have two tables in my model (Gallery and Image). These tables ar related (one-to-many) by GalleryId (1 gallery – many images).

On Gallery -> Details view i would like to insert gallery details(which is simple) and one more thing – list of images from this gallery. I have no idea how to do it.
Here are classes from this model:

public partial class Gallery
{
    public Gallery()
    {
        this.Images = new HashSet<Image>();
    }

    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Password { get; set; }
    public System.DateTime CreatedOn { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Image> Images { get; set; }
}
public partial class Image
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string FileName { get; set; }
    public int GalleryId { get; set; }
    public System.DateTime UploadedOn { get; set; }

    public virtual Gallery Gallery { get; set; }
}
 public partial class MyEntities : DbContext
{

    public DbSet<Gallery> Galleries { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Image> Images { get; set; }
}

What is the best way to do it?

Answer 1

In the detailview, you use the Gallery as your model (in the controller you return the desired gallery return ActionResult View(service.GetGallery(id));

and in the view you have a loop:

@foreach (var item in Model.Images.Select((model, index) => new { index, model }))
{
    <div>@(item.index). @item.model.Name </div>
}