How to use multiple model in one view?

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Hello,

Can you help me, how to use multiple model in one mvc view?

for example i have two classes called Projects, meetings. i want to show them in one view "Here is my projects...." and "here is my meetings" but i have an error like this;

"The model item passed into the dictionary is of type <system.collections.generic>
but this dictionary requires a model item of type ["Projects"]."

thanks for your help,

have a nice day.

Posted 29-Oct-12 22:37pm

batuhan karaduman

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Frederico Barbosa · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-30T00:23:00

The way the MVC pattern works is: you have a "model" (i.e., data) and you can show it with different "views" (e.g., table, graph...), but a particular view handles only a specific model.

In your case, you may do one of the following:

1) Make "Project" and "Meeting" look the same to the View.

1.1) You can do this by deriving them from the same base class (lets call such base class "Displayable") and prepare your View to show Displayable items or...

1.2) ... by implementing the same interface (lets call such interface "IDisplayable") and prepare your View to handle items implementing the IDisplayable interface.

2) Create different views, one for each model (one for Project lists, and another for Meeting lists).

The error message...

"The model item passed into the dictionary is of type
but this dictionary requires a model item of type ["Projects"]."

... suggests your View only knows "Project" items (or something derived from Projects) and that a "Meeting" is not (meaning, doesn't inherit from) a "Project".