Question

I’m sorry, for I’m sure there’s a way to do this with a viewModel, however I’m very inexperienced with this and don’t even know if I’m doing it correctly.

What I’m trying to do is pass multiple blogs and the profile info of the user who posted each blog to a view.

I’m getting the following error.

The model item passed into the dictionary is of type
‘ACapture.Models.ViewModels.BlogViewModel’, but this dictionary
requires a model item of type
‘System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[ACapture.Models.ViewModels.BlogViewModel]’.

I’m trying to pass the following query results to the view.

        var results = (from r in db.Blog.AsEnumerable()
                       join a in db.Profile on r.AccountID equals a.AccountID
                       select new { r, a });

        return View(new BlogViewModel(results.ToList()));
    }

This is my viewModel

public class BlogViewModel
{
    private object p;

    public BlogViewModel(object p)
    {
        this.p = p;
    }
}

And my view

@model IEnumerable<ACapture.Models.ViewModels.BlogViewModel>
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}

<div class="Forum">
    <p>The Forum</p>

            @foreach (var item in Model)
            {
                <div class="ForumChild">


                    <img src="@item.image.img_path" alt="Not Found" />
                    <br />
                        <table>
                            @foreach (var comment in item.comment)
                            {

                                <tr><td></td><td>@comment.Commentation</td></tr>
                            }
                        </table>
                </div>                
            }
</div>

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I guess you need to change your view model a little to:

public class BlogViewModel
{
    public Blog Blog { get; set; }
    public Profile Profile{ get; set; }
}

and then return it as follow:

    var results = (from r in db.Blog.AsEnumerable()
                   join a in db.Profile on r.AccountID equals a.AccountID
                   select new new BlogViewModel { Blog = r, Profile = a });

    return View(results.ToList());

Then in your foreach loop inside of view, you will get an objects that will contain both – profile and blog info, so you can use it like f.e. @item.Profile.Username