Alternative way to use ViewData in the View of an ASP.Net MVC Application

Question

Hi,

I am have been working on an ASP.NET Application. When passing data from the Controller to the View I have been doing the following-

<%foreach(myModel classified in(IQueryable<MyModel>)ViewData["Classifieds"])
{%>
       <p><span class="Bold">Title:</span> <%: classified.Header %></p>
       <p><span class="Bold">Price: £ </span><%: classified.Price %></p>
<%}%>

As you might guess this is my main content. A load of adverts. Now I want the category that the classified are in as the header of my page. What other way is there istead of going foreach... so it only appears once.

Thanks,

Answer 1

If all adverts in the viewdata have the same category then you get the category from the first object of the viewdata.

((Classifieds)ViewData["Classifieds"][0]).Category

or something like that.