Option 1:
The best approach is to use strongly typed views with Model or ViewModel.
For Example, you have two classes User and Education, you want to display all education details of user in a view, you can create a custom view model and pass it to view, where you view is strongly typed view model:
public class User
{
public int UserId {get;set;}
public string UserName {get;set}
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}
public class Education
{
public int UserId {get;set;}
public int DegreeId {get;set;}
public long Marks {get;set;}
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}
Now create a view Model like this:
public class EducationViewModel
{
public User user {get;set;}
public List<Education> educationList {get;set;}
}
now pass the ViewModel to View and do this in View:
@model AppNameSpace.ViewModels.EducationViewModel
Tip: Create a folder named ViewModels and put all the viewmodel classes in it.
Option2:
Option 2 is to user ViewBag and pass multiple object from control to your view, ViewBag is accessible when you set some value in it in controller, you can access in the view of that action, after that it is automatically washed out, and its null if you access again it.
you can use ViewBag like this:
ViewBag.Message = "Using ViewBag";
and read value like this in View:
string Message = ViewBag.Message as string;
Option 3:
Option 3 is to store data in TempData, its once read only, means you set value in it, and when you read it, its automatically removed, TempData internally uses Session Variables.You can use TempData like this:
TempData["Key"] = "value";
now you read it in view:
string val = TempData["Key"] as string;
after reading it, it will be automatically removed, but you can keep it if you need it further like this:
TempData.Keep("Key");
