Question

It is said that the models should be fat and the Views should be thin.We put our business logic inside the Model (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/235233/asp-net-mvc-should-business-logic-exist-in-controllers).We normally write the LINQ inside the controller,but is it possible that we should write the query in models,If yes then how we will get the results in the View?

Second Question

  public ActionResult Index()
  {
            using (NORTHWNDEntities c = new NORTHWNDEntities())
            {

                var x = c.Employees.Count();
                ViewData["count"] = x;

                return View(x);       
            }
    }

When we do this are we passing the variable x to the View?
I tried to access the ViewData in View

<% ViewData["count"] %>

But it gives an error error ,Anyone who can help me with this
Thanks

Answer 1

If you are trying to display the value of ViewData["count"] in your view, you can use the following syntax:

<%= ViewData["count"] %>

Note the = in the opening tag. This is the equivalent of

<% Response.Write(ViewData["count"]) %>