how to return 2 (or more) objects in C# MVC

Hello ,

You can create a custom model representing the data needed for your view.

<pre lang="c#">

public class UserView
{
public User User{get;set;}
public List Messages{get;set;}
}

And then,

return View(new UserView(){ User = user, Messages = message});

In the view:

Model.User;
Model.Messages;

The ViewBag is useful because it is dynamically typed, so you can reference members in it directly without casting. You do, however, then lose static type checking at compile time.

ViewData can be useful if you have a one-off on your view data types and know the type and will be doing a cast in the view anyway. Some people like to keep the actual typed view pure in a sense that it represents the primary model only, others like to take advantage of the type checking at compile time and therefore make custom models needed for the view.