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How to undo strongly typed view?


Ok so I am working with an ASP.NET MVC 3 project. When I first started to learn C# ASP.NET, I created a strongly typed view for a controller action. However, I now realized that I don't need that model (model that my view was strongly typed to) anymore. How can I get rid of the model? I tried excluding it from the project but when I compile my project in VS2010, it says that The page not found. Is there any way to undo the strongly typed part in VS2010 and still be able to keep and display stuff in my view?

Edit:

@using IntraNet.Areas.Roc.Models.ViewModels; @* This is for SiteLookupVM *@
@{ Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_LayoutIntranet.cshtml"; }

<div id="mdPageHdr">FindnSave Metrics</div>
@Html.Partial("_PartialSiteLookup", (SiteLookupVm) ViewBag.SiteLookup)




@if (ViewBag.SiteId > 0)
{   @Html.ActionLink("Bounce Metrics", "BounceMetrics", "Metrics",new { siteId =     @ViewBag.SiteId }, null)
@Html.Partial("_PartialChartDisplay")
}
else
{ 
<div id="tabsWrapper">
<ul id="tabs_menu">
<li>@Html.ActionLink("Page Loads", "Index", null, new { id = "active" })</li>
<li>@Html.ActionLink("Metrics Data", "DashMetrics")</li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id='dashboard'>

    @Html.Partial("_partialMetricsDashboard")
    </div>

 }

Action

protected MetricsDashboardRepository _mdr = new MetricsDashboardRepository();
private LoadHistoryDBEntities db = new LoadHistoryDBEntities();
private AvailabilityContext context = new AvailabilityContext();

public ActionResult Index(int? SiteId)
    {
        SiteLookupVm SiteLookup = new SiteLookupVm();
        SiteLookup.ActionName = "Index";
        SiteLookup.ControllerName = "Metrics";
        ViewBag.SiteLookup = SiteLookup;
        ViewBag.Title = "FNS Metrics";

        if (SiteId != null && SiteId > 0)
        {
            string site = new WPDE().Sites.Where(r => r.SiteId == SiteId).Select(r => r.Name).FirstOrDefault();
            SiteLookup.CurrentSite = site == null ? "Site does not exist" : site;
            ViewBag.SiteId = SiteId;
            ViewBag.FnsId = db.fns_sites.Where(f => f.3id == SiteId && f.enabled).Select(s => s.id).FirstOrDefault();
            ViewBag.RegionData = context.Regions.ToList();
            ViewBag.PathData = context.TestPaths.ToList();
        }
        else
        {
            _mdr.DashSetup();
            ViewBag.mdr = _mdr;
            ViewBag.date = 30;
            ViewBag.order = 0;
            ViewBag.totPageView = _mdr.TotPageView();
            ViewBag.totMonthUni = _mdr.TotMonthUni();
        }
        return View();
    }

Solution

  • In the top of your view, you should see something like this:

    Razor:

    @model YourType
    

    ASPX:

    <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<YourType>" %>
    

    If it's Razor, remove that line. If it's ASPX, change <YourType> to <dynamic>

    Regards