ASP.NET MVC: how to pass more than one object to the View method?

Question

I have finished the NerdDinner tutorial, and now I play a little with the project. The index page displays all upcoming dinners:

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var dinners = dinnerRepository.FindUpComingDinners().ToList();
        return View(dinners);
    }

In the DinnerRepository class, I have a method FindAllDinners, and I would like to add to it the index number of the method of all dinners, something like this:

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var dinners = dinnerRepository.FindUpComingDinners().ToList();
        var numberOfAllDinners = dinnerRepository.FindAllDinners().Count();
        return View(dinners, numberOfAllDinners);
    }

Of course, this does not work. Since I'm pretty new to OOP, I need help with this.

Thanks,
Ile

Answer 1

Create a view model:

public class DinnerViewModel
{
    public List<Dinner> Dinners { get; set; }
    public int NumberOfAllDinners { get; set; }
}

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var dinners = dinnerRepository.FindUpComingDinners().ToList();
    var numberOfAllDinners = dinnerRepository.FindAllDinners().Count();
    return View(new DinnerViewModel { Dinners = dinners, NumberOfAllDinners = numberOfAllDinners } );
}

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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ViewData["numberOfAllDinners"] = 150;
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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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