Dictionary requires a model item of type System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable in MVC 3

Dictionary requires a model item of type System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable in MVC 3

I encountered an error while implementation of return multiple models to single view.

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Return Multiple Models in single View in MVC3

An error was occurring on routine basis.Initially I found challenge to find the root cause of this.

Later I understood an error and change my approach to overcome on this.

In this blog I am sharing the way to resolve this error.

Whenever I run my application and paste the following URL in browser http://localhost:60346/Home/rsvpform , it prompts me an error:

The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'MVCSample.Models.ParentModel', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[MVCSample.Models.ParentModel]'.

The reason behind the View “(.cshtml) expects the IEnumerable model type. “as I’ve set below for sample app.

Now figure out the reason for occurrence of an error, it generates an error when we are returning only of base type model class object as an example below:

So point of interest is whenever you return a model type object it must be sync with view model type.

If I uncomment the above three lines as depict also in below image it will run as expected, because of this is we are returing viewModelList object as Enumerable type .

More Summarized words are, Model declaration in View and the model being return from Controller class must be sync with each other.

 

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