Strongly Typed Data (MVC)

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Hello Buddies! Pls, explain this line (Am confused) ASP.NET MVC also provides the ability to pass strongly typed data or objects to a view template. What is Strongly Typed Data? :)

Alok Saxena · Answer

Hi, Strongly Typed Data is a type tied to Object and Object's properties. Step-1 Controller public class DepartmentController : Controller { private DepartmentDBContext db = new DepartmentDBContext(); public ActionResult Index() { return View(db.Department.ToList()); } } Step-2 View @model MvcDepartment.Models.Department This is used as a Strongly Typed Data @{ ViewBag.Title = "Details"; } Details Department Name @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.DepartmentTitle)

Ramesh Maruthi · Answer

Def1 : The view which bind with any model is called as strogly typed view. You can bind any class as model to view.You can access model properties on that view. You can use data associated with model to render controls. You can bind custom types as well as primitive types like string, array, list etc. to view. Def2 :A Strongly Typed view means it has a ViewModel associated to it that the controller is passing to it and all the elements in that View can use those ViewModel properties You can have strongly typed partials as well. Meaning that piece of Html needs specific data so you type it to a certain ViewModel Here is an example of a Strongly Typed View @model SomeViewModel ...// all the html comes after A view that is strongly typed have a @model SomeViewModel line Here's one that renders a strongly typed View public ActionResult Index() { var model = new SomeViewModel(); return View(model); } And the view makes use of that ViewModel by having the @model SomeViewModel at the top of the file. So now that the view has a ViewModel I can display elements that are bound to the ViewModel like @Model.Name @Model.Location OR for Controls------ @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name) @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Location) you can find the brief explanation in that links :)

Abhishek Jaiswal · Answer

Heyy! the above mentioned line is from the heading u did added in ur reply. :D i just want explanation of that line in brief. :)

Ramesh Maruthi · Answer

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rickandy/archive/2011/01/28/dynamic-v-strongly-typed-views.aspx http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2008/02/21/aspnet-mvc-making-strongly-typed-viewpages-more-easily/ http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/abhikumarvatsa/strongly-typed-views-in-mvc/ In this link once look at from this heading Strongly Typed Models and the @model Keyword Rick explained in a detail way :) http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/introduction/accessing-your-models-data-from-a-controller