ASP.net MVC - Display Template for a collection

Question

I have the following model in MVC:

public class ParentModel
{
    public string Property1 { get; set; }
    public string Property2 { get; set; }

    public         


        

Answer 1

In my question about not getting output from views, I actually have an example of how to template a model with a collection of child models and have them all render.

ASP.NET Display Templates - No output

Essentially, you need to create a model that subclasses List or Collection and use this:

@model ChildModelCollection 

@foreach (var child in Model)
{
    Html.DisplayFor(m => child);
}

In your template for the collection model to iterate and render the children. Each child needs to strongly-typed, so you may want to create your own model types for the items, too, and have templates for those.

So for the OP question:

public class ChildModelCollection : Collection { }

Will make a strongly-typed model that's a collection that can be resolved to a template like any other.