How to Pass data to view from Controller ?

There are three ways to pass data from controller to a view.

There are three ways to pass data from controller to a view.

1. View Model

2. View Bag

3. View Data

Let look at all one by one.

1. Sending data from View to Controller through View Model

First of all we have to define model in our view using @ model tag in cshtml file. Look in picture below I have passed a model named Movie and then using @ Model tag I have received that information.

Lets see how we have passed data from Controller.

2. Sending data from View to Controller through View Data

View Data works like dictionary we have to pass key and value. We set value against specific key in controller and an access it in view. Lets look through example.

Here it is controller side

In cshtml we can access data like this

3. Sending data from View to Controller through View Bag

View Bag is same like View Data with one difference that we don't need to set key in brackets. We can dynamically set any variable through this . Lets look through example. In controller we set data like this

In cshtml we can retrieve it like this

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