Models represent your business domain classes. Now, we are going to learn about how to use the Models in our controller. Create a Models
folder and add a simple Employee
class. This is a just a plain old C# class:
public class Employee { public int EmployeeId { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Designation { get; set; } }
Create a new action
method, Employee
, in our HomeController
, and create an object of the Employee
Model with some values, and pass the Model to the View. Our idea is to use the Model employee values in the View to present them to the user:
using Chapter3.Models; public IActionResult Employee() { //Sample Model - Usually this comes from database Employee emp1 = new Employee { EmployeeId = 1, Name = "Jon Skeet", Designation = " Software Architect" }; return View(emp1); }
Now, we need to add the respective View for this action
method. Add a new Razor view file in the ViewHome folder
.
Add the following code snippet. Whatever comes after the @
symbol is considered as Razor code. In the following code, we are trying to access the properties of the Model
object that is passed to our view. In our case, Model
represents the employee
object that we have constructed in our action
method. You can access the object from View using the Model keyword:
<html> <body> Employee Name : @Model.Name <br/> Employee Designation: @Model.Designation <br/> </body> </html>
When you run the application and type the URL http://localhost:50140/Home/Employee
, you'll see the following output: