ASP.net MVC - rendering a List containing different types, with a different view for each type

Question

Imagine I have a list of objects that implement an interface called ISummary The objects within this list MAY have additional properties ie.

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Answer 1

The most obvious way I can think of would be to do something like:

    foreach(ISummary summ in listOfISummary) {
    Html.RenderPartial(String.Fomat("~/Views/Shared/{0}Renderer.ascx", summ.GetType.ToString()), summ, ViewData);%>
}

and create a strongly typed view with a naming convention, like NewsSummaryRenderer.ascx.

I expect that you could move this out to a helper method though, but I'd add it to one of the existing helpers through an extension method rather than putting it in a code behind as suggested previously.