How to pass two LINQ joined tables from Controller to View - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have three objects:
public class Part
{
[Key]
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Number { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public int descID { get; set; }
}
public class Description
{
[Key]
public int descID { get; set; }
public string descName { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
}
public class GridPart
{
public string name{ get; set; }
public string number { get; set; }
public string description { get; set; }
}
I'm using LINQ to join Part and Description on the descID column:
public ActionResult Index()
{
var myParts = from p in db.Parts
join d in db.Description on p.descID equals d.DescriptorID
select new { Description = d.description, Name = p.name};
List<GridPart> partsList = new List<GridPart>();
foreach (var m in myParts)
{
GridPart gp = new GridPart();
gp.Name = m.name;
gp.description = m.description;
partsList.Add(gp);
}
return View(partsList);
}
If I was just using the Parts table, in the view I would do:
#model IEnumerable<MyApp.Models.Part>
What do I do if I'm using the joined table? This uses both Parts and Description, not to mention my List of GridParts, how do I pass this through to display all of the data I need?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you pass an anonymous type to your view it won't be strongly typed. You can refer to your model like this instead
#Html.TextBox("Name")
or
#Html.Display("Name")
Although this will work I would advice against it - The better solution would be to go with a Viewmodel instead. This will make your view strongly typed.
Edit: Looking on this again I see that your actually not parsing the anonymous type to your view. Your parsing a list of GridParts.
You should be able to strongly type your view like your tried - just refer to GridParts instead of parts.
#model IEnumerable<MyApp.Models.GridPart>