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copied!<p>After messing around with this for over a week, I finally managed to figure out how MVC can do what I want dynamically. I decided to post my solution for others that are new to MVC. Hopefully, the following will clear up the misunderstandings I had (although, at this point in my understanding of MVC, I cannot say this is the best approach.)</p> <p>I will include the previous code snips and modifications for clarity:</p> <pre><code> public interface IModuleRepository { IList<MenuItemModule> GetMenuItemModules(int menuItem); IList<Announcements> GetAnnouncements(int modID); IList<News> GetNews(int modID); IList<Contacts> GetContacts(int modID); } //business object public class MenuItemModule { private int _MenuItemID; private int _ModuleID; private int _ModuleDefID; private string _Src; private int _ModuleOrder; //get, set properties for these... } //announcements entity public class Announcements : MenuItemModule { private int _ID = -1; private string _Description = string.Empty; //get set props ... } </code></pre> <p>I also added another class:</p> <pre><code>public class AnnouncementModule : MenuItemModule { private IList<Announcements> _Announcements; //get set prop } </code></pre> <p>...and I created a model for the view</p> <pre><code>public class HomeItemViewModel { public MenuItemModule[] MenuItemModules { get; set; } //collection of menuitemmodules } </code></pre> <p>In my home controller... </p> <pre><code> var menuItemModules = modRepository.GetMenuItemModules(ItemID); if (menuItemModules.Count > 0) { AnnouncementModule aMod; MenuItemModule[] mods = new MenuItemModule[menuItemModules.Count()]; int i = 0; //loop through each MenuItemModule assign to the appropriate model foreach (MenuItemModule mod in menuItemModules) { if (mod.Src == "Announcements") { aMod = new AnnouncementModule(); aMod.Announcements = modRepository.GetAnnouncements(mod.ModuleID); //now add this to the menuitemmodule collection mods[i] = aMod; } if (mod.Src == "Contacts") { //... } i++; } } var viewModel = new HomeItemViewModel { MenuItemModules = mods }; return View(viewModel); </code></pre> <p>Then I used the suggestion to use DisplayFor in the view. The view is strongly typed to HomeItemViewModel.</p> <pre><code><%: Html.DisplayFor(m => m.MenuItemModules) %> </code></pre> <p>This iterates through the collection and based on the type, it will call that template. In this example, it calls AnnouncementModule.ascx which is strongly typed to AnnouncementModule.</p> <pre><code>foreach (var a in Model.Announcements) { //a.Description will give us the description of the announcement } </code></pre> <hr> <p>I realize there are slicker ways to code the controller, and I plan on refactoring, but this skeleton should provide the basics to solve the question I posted. </p>

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