Question

I’ve researched this issue and can not find a solution. My problem is that in my view, I can not view the properties of my ViewModel (e.g., Model.Supplier.SupplerName). Intellisense will only allow me to go Model.Suppliers, or Model.ToolTypes, or Model.ToolTypesSuppliers . I can not get the properties of each of these models that I included into the ViewModel.

ViewModel:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace ToolOrder.Models
{
    public class ToolTypeSupplierViewModel
    {
        public ToolTypeSupplierViewModel(IEnumerable<ToolType> tooltypes, IEnumerable<Supplier> suppliers, IEnumerable<ToolTypeSupplier> tooltypesuppliers)
        {
            this.ToolTypes = tooltypes;
            this.Suppliers = suppliers;
            this.ToolTypeSuppliers = tooltypesuppliers;
        }

        public IEnumerable<ToolType> ToolTypes { get; private set; }
        public IEnumerable<Supplier> Suppliers { get; private set; }
        public IEnumerable<ToolTypeSupplier> ToolTypeSuppliers { get; private set; }

    }
}

Controller:

public ActionResult ListToolTypeSupplierOptions()
{
    var _tooltypelist =_repository.FetchAllToolTypeOptions();
    var _supplierlist = _repository.FetchAllSupplierOptions();
    var _toolstypesupplierlist = _repository.FetchAllToolTypeSupplierOptions();

    return View(new ToolTypeSupplierViewModel(_tooltypelist, _supplierlist, _toolstypesupplierlist));
}

View:

@model IEnumerable<ToolOrder.Models.ToolTypeSupplierViewModel>


<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Supplier</th>
        <th>Tool TYpe</th>
        <th>Created</th>
        <th>Last Modified </th>
    </tr>

@foreach (var item in Model.) {
    <tr>
        <td>
        </td>
    </tr>
}

</table>

Any help would be appreciated or if any further clarification is required, I can follow up. I apologize if this is somewhat vague, I’ve been up trying to figure out why I can not pull the the properties of each Model that I’ve included in my ViewModel. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Your question is somehow misleading, so i’ll try to answer both cases.

1. As i see you pass single instance of ToolTypeSupplierViewModel to your view from controller, and not enumerable. If this is not mistake, than mistake is in your view – model should be not IEnumerable of ToolTypeSupplierViewModel, but single ToolTypeSupplierViewModel. In this case, you could iterate over Model.ToolTypes, Suppliers, etc. Directly
2. If the mistake is not in view, but in controller and model should be of type IEnumerable<ToolTypeSupplierViewModel>, than first you sould iterate over Model directly, as it IS Enumerable itself. Its items are ToolTypeSupplierViewModel. In this case, code will be as ysrb suggested