Create strongly typed view from code and load it

Question

I have a strongly typed viewpage that I created that looks like this:

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

I'm trying to create the view page in code and render it without displaying it :

System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<Models.Reports.OverallResultsViewModel> page2 = new ViewPage<Models.Reports.OverallResultsViewModel>();

Here is the implemented view model:

public class OverallResultsViewModel {
    public OverallResultsViewModel(string name, string draft, IEnumerable<Subject> subjects, IEnumerable<IResult> results) {
        this.Name = name;
        this.Draft = draft;
        this.Subjects = subjects;
        this.Results = results;
    }

    public IEnumerable<Subject> Subjects { get;  set; }
    public IEnumerable<IResult> Results { get;  set; }
    public string Name { get;  set; }
    public string Draft { get;  set; }
}

I was thinking I'd use the following code to pass in the values to the view model:

page2.Model.Draft = Draft;
page2.Model.Results = page2Data;
page2.Model.Subjects = subjects;
page2.Model.Name = Name;

But I get an error saying that Model is null. How do I get Model initialized so that I can set variables on it?

Answer 1

Try:

page2.ViewData.Model = new OverallResultsViewModel(
                   Name, Draft, subjects, page2Data
 );