MVC3 Partial Views

Question

Still Learning MVC3, EF. For now I am connecting to MySql but I believe that will not be relevant. For simplicity, I decided to use one database for my test application and

Answer 1

You could do the following:

Controller:

public ActionResult Home()
{
  IEnumerable myData = LinqQueryToGetAllTheDataUnFiltered();
  ViewData.Model = new MyViewData { MyData = myData; }
  return View();
}

ViewModel class:

public class MyViewData
{
  List MyData { get; set; }
  List News { get { return MyData.Where(m => m.Category = "News"); } }
  List Events { get { return MyData.Where(m => m.Category = "Events"); } }
}

View:

@model MyViewModel

@Html.Partial("NewsPartial", Model.News)
@Html.Partial("EventsPartial", Model.Events)

Partial:

@model IEnumerable

This way we only queried for the data once and just passed a different set to each partial