ASP.NET MVC3: Interaction between Partial View and Main View

Question

I have a partial view for contact. Currently the index view shows this partial view for contact details. There is a save button inside the partial view to save the edited d

Answer 1

you'll need to create a new ViewModel to do this. This ViewModel (IndexViewModel.cs) would look something like this (I'm guessing at this):

public class IndexViewModel
{
    public int ContactID { get; set; }
    public string ContactName { get; set; }
    public int ContactAge { get; set; }
    public string HoroscopePrediction { get; set; }
}

you'd then use it in your controller index action (and view):

@model  MYContactEditPartialViewTEST.IndexViewModel

the idea being that you'd populate the HoroscopePrediction in a join between ContactEntity and AgeHoroscope (or via Linq etc) and thus show each line in the index as a complete object (showing contact and horoscope).