ASP.NET MVC - Management

Question

Hey there, I'm trying to make a site which have following: News, Products, About and Contact. The problem is that for example the Products - I have an Index view to list the products for the user, but what if I want to make a "control panel" where I should be able to edit the products(names, prices, quantity) - how should that be done without have to create double productController?

Answer 1

You can have different views associated to one controller. Each view will be linked to an action method in your controller.

You could, for exemple, define your ProductController class like this

public class ProductController : Controller {
   [HttpGet]
   public ActionResult Index() {
      var productList = ProductService.GetProducts();
      return View( productList );
   }

   [HttpGet]
   public ActionResult Edit( int id ) {
      var product = ProductService.GetProduct( id );
      return View( product );
   }

   [HttpPost]
   public ActionResult Edit( ProductModel product ) {
      if (ModelState.IsValid()) {
         // save the changes
         return RedirectToAction( "Index" );
      }
      return View( product );
   }
}

And have the corresponding views in your Views folder :

Views
| -- Product
    | -- Index.aspx
    | -- Edit.aspx