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    <p>Look into ViewModel objects, objects you create whose purpose in life is to carry data to and from your Views. The Models folder created for you by default in a new MVC project would hold exactly those classes.</p> <p>You have options besides the ViewModel object methodology, but none are as clean. (The <code>ViewData</code> dictionary is around to help but it's not intended to be the primary means of providing data to your views.) Here's an example of how to set the Model property of the ViewData object to an instantiated, populated viewmodel instance:</p> <pre><code> public ActionResult SiteContent(string strSlug) { SiteContentVM model = new SiteContentVM(); SiteService siteService = new SiteService(); model.Slug = siteService.GetALittleSlimyCreature(strSlug); model.List1 = siteService.GetList1(); model.List2 = siteService.GetList2(); ViewData.Model = model; return View(); } </code></pre> <p>You can now create a strongly typed view (complete with intellisense) to reference any properties of your ViewModel object instance from within your view simply through the <code>Model</code> property:</p> <pre><code>&lt;% foreach (var item in Model.List1) { %&gt; &lt;% Html.Encode(item.StringField) %&gt; &lt;!-- &lt;= writing a property --&gt; &lt;% Html.RenderPartial("PartialNameHere", item); %&gt; &lt;!-- &lt;= the equivalent of a usercontrol --&gt; &lt;% } %&gt; </code></pre> <p>As you see above the process of getting data from the database does not change for MVC. You do it just as you would in a normal webforms project. (...usually this involves instantiating a business logic or service class of some sort rather than actually writing the code in the MVC project.)</p> <p>Enjoy MVC!</p>
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    1. COYou got there just before me. I would add that if the Master Page needs data then you have to strongly type the Master Page as well to get full use of the ViewModel but that does have the problem that all pages that use the master page will then need to be strongly-typed to that ViewModel or it's subclasses
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    2. CO@Ian ,, you are right ,,, but sometimes you need to give some data to the Master Page like Navigation Links, Page Title, etc. I find having a strongly typed Master Page makes things a little easier. King Wilder have a nice way of doing it where he uses a BaseViewModel with a BaseViewModelBuilder to simplify things in the controllers. you can check his Golf Tracker source code to see how he did it. http://www.mvccentral.net/Kit/Details/3/Golf_Tracker_Kit
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    3. COI think you are right, I use a similar patterns of a single strongly-typed master page and all view models inherit from that base model (which does force you to use a view model) but it does make the work that bit harder if you are potentially using several different master pages that may require several different base models
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Detail views are divided into sections. All the information in the data section comes from columns in the selected row. The other sections display data from other, related rows.

Related data can be related in a to-one or a to-many fashion. Captions of data related in a to-many fashion link to a list view showing a filtered view of the table.

Try moving around until you find a non-empty to-many entry and click on the label to get to one. You can move back to the root by clicking on the database name in the header.

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