Using LLBL as Model in MVC

Answer 1

You can use the AsEnumerable extension where your ????? are or change the type of your ViewUserControl(in the markup) to be of type System.Collections.Generic.List. Basically what you need to correct is the mismatch between the type of the View and the Model being passed in.

Answer 2

I'm not sure about your exact error, but I'd venture a guess that one of two things are happenging:

• You are making some sort of invalid / illegal call on your LLBLGen object. If this is the case make sure you are setting it up right / calling right method / property etc.

• The model you are passing to the veiw is too hairy for it to deal with. In this case, and in general, you should create a light 'View Model' class with just the data you want displayed and populate it from your LLBLGen object first then pass it to the view, which will be able to easily handle your view model class.

Here are some references:

• http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2009/04/13/asp.net-mvc-tip-50-ndash-create-view-models.aspx
• http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Part6.htm
• http://www.codinginstinct.com/2008/10/view-model-inheritance.html

Answer 3

Not sure if this would work, but you could try wrapping the EntityCollection into a ViewModel class and passing it to the View like so:

public class GroupsViewModel()
{
    public GroupCollection Groups { get; set; }
    // other items in your view model could go here
}

then convert your controller method to

public ActionResult Index()
{
    GroupCollection gc = new GroupCollection();
    gc.GetMulti(null);
    GroupsViewModel vm = new GroupsViewModel();
    vm.Groups = gc;
    return View(vm);
}

I like this approach because each ViewModel is an object in-and-of itself.

Answer 4

Stemming off what Yuriy said, it looks like your view is strongly typed to a "collection" of a collection of your groupentity, and you are trying to pass just the collection of your groupentities. Make sure your "collection" type (IEnumerable, IList, etc) matches what type of collection you are sending in your controller, along with the type of the actual object in the collection.

View: System.Collections.Generic.List1[glossary.EntityClasses.GroupEntity]

Controller: System.Collections.Generic.List1[glossary.EntityClasses.GroupEntity]

Just a thought