Displaying standard DataTables in MVC

Question

Perhaps this is just completely wrong, but back in the days of Webforms you would return a Dataset which you would then bind to a grid. But now in MVC you\'re not supposed

Answer 1

While I tried the approach above, it becomes a complete disaster with mvc. Your controller passing a model and your view using a strongly typed model become too difficult to work with.

Get your Dataset into a List ..... I have a repository pattern and here is an example of getting a dataset from an old school asmx web service private readonly CISOnlineSRVDEV.ServiceSoapClient _ServiceSoapClient;

    public Get_Client_Repository()
        : this(new CISOnlineSRVDEV.ServiceSoapClient())
    {

    }
    public Get_Client_Repository(CISOnlineSRVDEV.ServiceSoapClient serviceSoapClient)
    {
        _ServiceSoapClient = serviceSoapClient;
    }


    public IEnumerable GetClient(IClient client)
    {
        // ****  Calling teh web service with passing in the clientId and returning a dataset
        DataSet dataSet = _ServiceSoapClient.get_clients(client.RbhaId,
                                                        client.ClientId,
                                                        client.AhcccsId,
                                                        client.LastName,
                                                        client.FirstName,
                                                        "");//client.BirthDate.ToString());  //TODO: NEED TO FIX

        // USE LINQ to go through the dataset to make it easily available for the Model to display on the View page
        List clients = (from c in dataSet.Tables[0].AsEnumerable()
                                 select new Client()
                                 {
                                     RbhaId = c[5].ToString(),
                                     ClientId = c[2].ToString(),
                                     AhcccsId = c[6].ToString(),
                                     LastName = c[0].ToString(), // Add another field called   Sex M/F  c[4]
                                     FirstName = c[1].ToString(),
                                     BirthDate = c[3].ToDateTime()  //extension helper  ToDateTime()
                                 }).ToList();

        return clients;

    }

Then in the Controller I'm doing this

IClient client = (IClient)TempData["Client"];

// Instantiate and instance of the repository 
var repository = new Get_Client_Repository();
// Set a model object to return the dynamic list from repository method call passing in the parameter data
var model = repository.GetClient(client);

// Call the View up passing in the data from the list
return View(model);

Then in the View it is easy :

@model IEnumerable

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "CLIENT ALL INFORMATION";
}

CLIENT ALL INFORMATION



@foreach (var item in Model) {
    
}


    

        

        
Last Name
        
First Name
        
Client ID
        
DOB
        
Gender
        
RBHA ID
        
AHCCCS ID
    

        

            @Html.ActionLink("Select", "ClientDetails", "Cis", new { id = item.ClientId }, null) |
        
        

            @item.LastName
        
        

            @item.FirstName
        
         

            @item.ClientId
        
         

            @item.BirthDate
        
         

            Gender @* ADD in*@
        
         

            @item.RbhaId
        
         

            @item.AhcccsId