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The document discusses two approaches to displaying a list of teachers and students within a single view in ASP.NET MVC. The first approach uses an ExpandoObject as a dynamic model, adding the teacher and student lists as properties. The second approach defines a ViewModel class containing properties for the teacher and student lists. Both approaches retrieve sample teacher and student data and pass the model to the view for display.

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MVC Imp

The document discusses two approaches to displaying a list of teachers and students within a single view in ASP.NET MVC. The first approach uses an ExpandoObject as a dynamic model, adding the teacher and student lists as properties. The second approach defines a ViewModel class containing properties for the teacher and student lists. Both approaches retrieve sample teacher and student data and pass the model to the view for display.

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Teacher and Student, and I need to display a list of teachers and students within a single view.

The following are the model definitions for the Teacher and Student classes.

public class Teacher


{
public int TeacherId { get; set; }
public string Code { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Student


{
public int StudentId { get; set; }
public string Code { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string EnrollmentNo { get; set; }
}

The following are the methods that help us to get all the teachers and students.

private List<Teacher> GetTeachers()


{
List<Teacher> teachers = new List<Teacher>();
teachers.Add(new Teacher { TeacherId = 1, Code = "TT", Name = "Tejas Trivedi" });
teachers.Add(new Teacher { TeacherId = 2, Code = "JT", Name = "Jignesh Trivedi" });
teachers.Add(new Teacher { TeacherId = 3, Code = "RT", Name = "Rakesh Trivedi" });
return teachers;
}

public List<Student> GetStudents()


{
List<Student> students = new List<Student>();
students.Add(new Student { StudentId = 1, Code = "L0001", Name = "Amit Gupta", EnrollmentNo
="201404150001" });
students.Add(new Student { StudentId = 2, Code = "L0002", Name = "Chetan Gujjar", EnrollmentNo
="201404150002" });
students.Add(new Student { StudentId = 3, Code = "L0003", Name = "Bhavin Patel", EnrollmentNo
="201404150003" });
return students;
}

There are many ways to use multiple models with a single view. Here I will explain ways one by one.

1. Using Dynamic Model


ExpandoObject (the System.Dynamic namespace) is a class that was added to the .Net Framework 4.0 that
allows us to dynamically add and remove properties onto an object at runtime. Using this ExpandoObject,
we can create a new object and can add our list of teachers and students into it as a property. We can
pass this dynamically created object to the view and render list of the teacher and student.

Controller Code

public class HomeController : Controller


{
public ActionResult Index()
{
ViewBag.Message = "Welcome to my demo!";
dynamic mymodel = new ExpandoObject();
mymodel.Teachers = GetTeachers();
mymodel.Students = GetStudents();
return View(mymodel);
}
}

We can define our model as dynamic (not a strongly typed model) using the @model dynamic keyword.

View Code

@using MultipleModelInOneView;
@model dynamic
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}
<h2>@ViewBag.Message</h2>

<p><b>Teacher List</b></p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Code</th>
<th>Name</th>
</tr>
@foreach (Teacher teacher in Model.Teachers)
{
<tr>
<td>@teacher.TeacherId</td>
<td>@teacher.Code</td>
<td>@teacher.Name</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
<p><b>Student List</b></p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Code</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Enrollment No</th>
</tr>
@foreach (Student student in Model.Students)
{
<tr>
<td>@student.StudentId</td>
<td>@student.Code</td>
<td>@student.Name</td>
<td>@student.EnrollmentNo</td>
</tr>
}
</table>

2. Using View Model

ViewModel is nothing but a single class that may have multiple models. It contains multiple models as a
property. It should not contain any method.

In the above example, we have the required View model with two properties. This ViewModel is passed to
the view as a model. To get intellisense in the view, we need to define a strongly typed view.

public class ViewModel


{
public IEnumerable<Teacher> Teachers { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<Student> Students { get; set; }
}

Controller code

public ActionResult IndexViewModel()


{
ViewBag.Message = "Welcome to my demo!";
ViewModel mymodel = new ViewModel();
mymodel.Teachers = GetTeachers();
mymodel.Students = GetStudents();
return View(mymodel);
}
View code

@using MultipleModelInOneView;
@model ViewModel
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}
<h2>@ViewBag.Message</h2>

<p><b>Teacher List</b></p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Code</th>
<th>Name</th>
</tr>
@foreach (Teacher teacher in Model.Teachers)
{
<tr>
<td>@teacher.TeacherId</td>
<td>@teacher.Code</td>
<td>@teacher.Name</td>
</tr>
}
</table>

<p><b>Student List</b></p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Code</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Enrollment No</th>
</tr>
@foreach (Student student in Model.Students)
{
<tr>
<td>@student.StudentId</td>
<td>@student.Code</td>
<td>@student.Name</td>
<td>@student.EnrollmentNo</td>
</tr>
}
</table>

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