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Mike McCoy
Mike McCoy

Reputation: 797

.net mvc partial for showing child elements that exist in different models

I have an application that has products. Each product belongs to a brand and a category.

I have my models structured so when I get a category or brand, all the products within either are returned as an IEnumberable.

How do I create on partial view that I can use in either my main brand or category view that will display the products no matter what the current model is?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 259

Answers (1)

Shyju
Shyju

Reputation: 218722

Have a view which is strongly typed to List of Product and keep it under a shared location. (~/Views/Shared folder with a name ProductList.cshtml)

@IList<Product>
@{
   Layout=null;  //assuming this is for ajax (Popups).so no layout needed.
 }
@foeach(var prod in Model)
{
  <p>@prod.Name</p>
  <p>@prod.Price</p>
}

You can use this view to show list of Product, no matter it belongs to brand / category /whatever

public ActionResult ShowProductsForBrand(int brandId)
{
    List<product> products=GetProductsForBrand(brandId);
    return View("~/Views/Shared/ProductList.cshtml",products)
}

public ActionResult ShowProductsForCategory(int catId)
{
    List<product> products=GetProductsForCategory(catId);
    return View("~/Views/Shared/ProductList.cshtml",products)
}

Upvotes: 2

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