Pass more than one model to view

Question

public ActionResult Index()
{ 
    var pr = db.products;
    return View(pr); 
}

Firstly - I want to pass to the view more data - something like:

Answer 1

I have done this by making a ViewModel specific to the view you need the information in.

Then within that ViewModel just have properties to house your other models.

Something like this:

public class ViewModel
{
    public List Products(){get; set;}
    public List LinksForProducts(){get; set;}
}


public ActionResult Index()
{ 
    var pr = db.products;
    var lr = db.linksforproducts(2)

    ViewModel model = new ViewModel();
    model.Products = pr;
    model.LinksForProducts = lr;


    return View(model); 
}