ASP.NET MVC : Displaying same results on different view

Question

I am developing a learning project with ASP.NET MVC.I have a page that lists logged users's books and I want to display books in two formats like this

Normal List --> Display Book Thumbnail, Title,Page count,Author...
Detail List ---> Display only Book Title,Author,Page Count in HTML Table format
format

so I have two view pages Books.aspx,BookDetails.aspx. One for normal list,one for detail list but I have one controller action that returns books from database and can return results only to one page.

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        //get books from database
        return View(bookList);
    }

Do I have to include a parameter and check parameter to return list to different view or is there a better way to do this? How can I use same Controller action to display two views?

"One for normal list,one for detail list but I have one controller action that returns books from database and can return results only to one page." <- Why is that? — ChadT
– ChadT, Commented Mar 16, 2009 at 9:23
Ok I can create two Controller actions one for Detail List one for Normal List but I dont want to duplicate the same code in two places — caltuntas
– caltuntas, Commented Mar 16, 2009 at 9:45
create a method that retrieves the book data and call that from each action... — roryf
– roryf, Commented Mar 16, 2009 at 15:14

Craig Stuntz · Accepted Answer · 2009-03-17 13:46:02Z

2

Just pass the view name:

return View("Books", bookList);

...or....

return View("BookDetails", bookList);

answered Mar 17, 2009 at 13:46

Craig Stuntz

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Ayo · Accepted Answer · 2009-03-16 15:00:20Z

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Look into using partial views and create controller actions for them

public ActionResult NormalList{
    ViewData["normalList"] = //db retrieval code;
    return View("NormalList");
}

public ActionResult DetailedList{
    ViewData["detailedList"] = //db retrieval code;
    return View("DetailedList");
}

in your page

<%= Html.RenderPartial("NormalList", ViewData)%>


<%= Html.RenderPartial("DetailedList", ViewData)%>

and in your partial

<%foreach(var item in (IEnumerable)ViewData["normalList"]){%>
//blah blah blah
<%}%>

answered Mar 16, 2009 at 15:00

Ayo

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