Can I pass viewdatadictionary(mymodel) into an mvc view? How then to access it?

Question

I feel really daft asking this, sure I'm missing something really simple, but I just can't get it to work!

I've created a ViewDataDictionary like this in the controller:

public ActionResult Index()
{
        var recipient = new Recipient() { 
            FullName = "John Brown",
            Company = "FP",
            Email = "name@website.com"
        };
        ViewData = new ViewDataDictionary(recipient);

        UserMailer.OnEventBook().Send();

        return View();
}

But I can't work out how to access the data in the view.

I've tried:

@ViewData["FullName"]

@ViewData.recipient["FulName"]

@ViewData[recipient.FullName]

@Model.FullName

@recipient.FullName

...and a number of similar combinations. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Update

I realise I could just pass it through using ViewBag or ViewData["recipient"]. But I'm curious about this way of doing it.

The below is from the docs for MvcMailer, and the guy who wrote it seems to know his stuff, so I figured it must be a valid way of passing data through.

var comment = new Comment {From = me, To = you, Message = "Great Work!"};
ViewData = new ViewDataDictionary(comment);  

Update 2

Doh, I got it wrong.

The MvcMailer makes a call to an action within an action, and I should have been setting the ViewData in the sub action (OnEventBook() in the code above).

Answer 1

First change your controller code to:

var recipient = new Recipient() { 
    FullName = "John Brown",
    Company = "FP",
    Email = "name@website.com"
};
ViewData["Recipient"] = recipient;

Then in you view use the following code:

@((Recipient)ViewData["Recipient"]).FullName

Anyway if you want a to use a specific object to the View use a Strongly-typed view.

Update

If you still want to use ViewDataDictionary you should use the following code to access the model in your view:

@ViewData.Model.FullName

Answer 2

you can transfer the recipient data as "Model" from the controller to the view
CONTROLLERS:

public ActionResult Index()
{

   var recipient = new Recipient()
   {
       FullName = "John Brown",
       Company = "FP",
       Email = "name@website.com"
   };


 return view(recipient); //return the recipient as obj model
}

VIEWS:

@model YourNameSpace.YourRecipientModelFolder.Recipient
@{
  ViewBag.Title = "Home Index";
}
<div>Model:</div>
<div>@Model.FullName</div>
<div>@Model.Company</div>
<div>@Model.Email</div>

Note: YourNameSpace.YourRecipientModelFolder.Recipient is something like this MyMVC.Models.Recipient