LINQ Anonymous Types + MVC Views

Question

I\'ve seen many questions about this, but i\'ve never really got the answer that I need.

I\'m converting a fairly large web application from Web Forms to MVC and af

Answer 1

If you want to avoid creating a separate class just for displaying your one projection, you could also resort to using a dictionary, like so:

from person in personList select new Dictionary
{ 
    { "Name", person.Firstname + " " + person.Lastname },
    { "Id", person.Id.ToString() }
};

You can then type your viewpage to

ViewPage>>

And finally iterate over the list in the view like so:

<% foreach (Dictionary p in (IEnumerable)ViewData.Model) 
{ %>
   
 <%=p["Id"] %> - <%= p["Name"] %> 
<% } %>

Needless to say, the drawback is that your code is now rather full of "magic strings", making it more error prone because of the absence of compile time checking.