Where should ViewModels be located?

Question

• /Controllers/ViewModels?
• /Views/ViewModels?
• Other?

Answer 1

I like to have them at the root of the site /ViewModels or along side your Model folder (inside of it).

Answer 2

I place them with my views.

Answer 3

It depends on how you want to structure your project and how widely the model is supposed to be used.

You can create a separate folder and put all the View Model classes, or even just define them inside the controller class it correlated to.

However, if you are looking at layered development/structure for later web service implementation, I would recommend you to put them in a separate class library. It would be more clean and reusable across projects.

Answer 4

/Models

Since the "M" in MVC implies the models used for the views, and you are using view models, it seems just inside the "Models" folder is a prime location for them.

Whenever I start working in a non-trivial MVC application, the domain models end up being in an separate project from the MVC project. This makes it an even more tempting location because the default-created "Models" folder has no use without view models (yet deleting it feels wrong for some reason).