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

Usually - You create view model per view.

In Your case, that would be:

public class IndexModel{
  public ProductModel[] Products{get;set;}
  public LinkForProduct[] Links{get;set;}
}

public ActionResult Index(){
  var model=new IndexModel{
    Products=Map(db.products), 
    Links=Map(db.linksforproducts(2)};
  return View(model);
}