MVC 4 - Use a different model in partial view

Question

Please bear with my noobness, I\'m super new to the MVC pattern.

What I\'m trying to do

I am building a profile information page for re

Answer 1

The best way to handle this situation is to use and pass viewModel to your Profile controller, viewModel is wrapper class for multiple objects that you want to pass to your view.

public class ProfileUserViewModel
{
   public ProfileModel ProfileModelObject {get; set;}
   public UserModel  UserModelObject {get; set;}
}   

Your controller should look like:

public ActionResult Profil()
{            
    var profileModel = db.Users.First(e => e.UserName == WebSecurity.CurrentUserName);
    var userModel = //fetch from db.

    var pmViewModel = new ProfileUserViewModel  
                          {
                              ProfileModelObject = profileModel,
                              UserModelObject = userModel
                          };

   return View(pmViewModel);
}

And finally your view :

@model Applicense.Models.ProfileUserViewModel

Phone number: 

@if (Model.ProfileModelObject.PhoneNumber != null)
{
   @Model.PhoneNumber
}
else
{
    You haven't set up your phone number yet. 
}