I have a page:
<%@ Page Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.View<DTOSearchResults>" %>
And on it, the following:
<% Html.RenderPartial("TaskList", Model.Tasks); %>
Here is the DTO object:
public class DTOSearchResults
{
public string SearchTerm { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<Task> Tasks { get; set; }
and here is the partial:
<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<IEnumerable<Task>>" %>
When Model.Tasks is not null, everything works fine. However when its null I get:
The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'DTOSearchResults' but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Task]'.
I figured it must not know which overload to use, so I did this (see below) to be explicit, but I still get the same issue!
<% Html.RenderPartial("TaskList", (object)Model.Tasks, null); %>
I know I can work around this by checking for null, or not even passing null, but thats not the point. Why is this happening?