ViewModel, Partial Views and Layouts in Asp.Net Core

ViewModel, Partial Views and Layouts in Asp.Net Core

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Creating a ViewModel object and bind it to the View

In the previous post we created a custom controller and we developed our own view and it worked. There is one think to note in that sample, the controller was passing a list of Employee object will all the properties, but the view was displaying only specific properties. Though this works it’s not efficient while displaying larger lists, we end up fetching way too much data from the database but not using it. To avoid this we have to create a custom ViewModel object with only properties used in the view. In this sample we will modify the previous example to use a ViewModel object.

First create another folder inside the Models folder, name it ViewModel we will create all our ViewModel objects inside this folder. Next create a class EmployeeSummary.cs in this folder as follows.