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Ash Machine
Ash Machine

Reputation: 9921

How to reference property in ViewModel from Razor view

I have a view model class that has an attribute called Title that I would like to render on the Index view in Razor

CLASS

public class vmAppointment
{
    public Appointment Appointment { get; private set; }
    public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> EmployeeList { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
}

INDEX VIEW

@model IEnumerable<JJ.ViewModels.vmAppointment>

<h2>@Model.Title</h2>  WRONG!  how can i reference my property here?

how can I render the property value in the view?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6737

Answers (1)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039458

Your view is strongly typed to a collection of vmAppointment, not a single vmAppointment. So in order to reference the Title you're gonna have to loop through the elements of this collection. For example:

@foreach (var appointment in Model)
{
    <div>Appointment title: @appointment.Title</div>
}

Alternatively if you want your view to be strongly typed to a single vmAppointment instead of a collection have your controller action return a single instance of this class:

vmAppointment model = ...
return View(model);

and then make your view strongly typed to a single appointment and you will be able to directly reference the Title property:

@model JJ.ViewModels.vmAppointment
<h2>@Html.DisplyFor(x => x.Title)</h2>

Upvotes: 4

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