MVC 3 - parsing a FormCollection for a model

Question

For my sample application that I am creating, I am currently forced to pass a FormCollection object into my action method when trying to make ajax updates in my view.

The reason I decided to pass FormCollection is because my view is quite complex and contains nested collections. If I were in Serialize and Json.Stringify, it wraps these nested collections when passed to my action method.

Is there a good technique to map my FormCollection object to an instance of my ViewModel once inside the controller?

thanks

Answer 1

You can use TryUpdateModel<TypeOfYourModel>(YourModelInstance)