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

You could put a helper method in the view's codebehind, and then do something like:

Type modelType = this.Model.GetType();

if (modelType == typeof(NewsSummary))  this.RenderPartial("newspartial", this.Model as NewsSummary);
else if (modelType == typeof(GigSummary)) this.RenderPartial("gigpartial", this.Model as GigSummary);