how to fix this model item passed into the dictionary error..... in MVC5

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I used data base apprach entity framework. after creating database and edmx class.
i got the model class like follow.
class name : Employee.cs

namespace DropShipTestEmployee
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    public partial class Employee
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string descript{ get; set; }
        public string grp{ get; set; }
        public decimal price{ get; set; }
    public string garment { get; set; }
        public string sku { get; set; }
        public string upc2 { get; set; }
        public string user4 { get; set; }
        public string carelabel { get; set; }
        public string a_sku1 { get; set; }
        public string label1 { get; set; }
        public string label2 { get; set; }
        public string label3 { get; set; }
        public string userid { get; set; }
    }
}

index.cshtml
@model IEnumerable<DropShipTest.Employee>
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home page";
}


<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <h2>Categories</h2>
        <img src="~/Image/Testimg/te.jpg" class="img-responsive" />
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-8">
        <h2>Popular Products</h2>
        @foreach (var item1 in Model )
        {



            <div class="col-md-3">
              <img src="~/Images/Testimg/sil.jpg" />
                @item1.id<br />
                @item1.descript<br />
                @item1.grp<br />
                @item1.price<br />


            </div>
        }

    </div>

</div>
then controller class and action method index

if i did select particular column from table like below, it works fine. no error:

        WFTOOLSDBContext3 dbcontext = new WFTOOLSDBContext3();
        public ActionResult Index()
        {

       var ivtfval = dbcontext.Employees.Take(16).ToList();
        return View(ivtfval);
        }

But that Employee has more than 100 column. so in my project i do not want to select all column whereas i need to select just few column from table.
for that i used linq query like follow.

WFTOOLSDBContext3 dbcontext = new WFTOOLSDBContext3();
        public ActionResult Index()
        {

           var ivtfval = (from a in dbcontext.Employees
                           select new { a.id, a.descript, a.grp, a.price }).Take(16);
            return View(ivtfval.ToList());

        }

if i run, I am getting this error:

The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[<>f__AnonymousType4`4[System.Int32,System.String,System.String,System.Nullable`1[System.Decimal]]]', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[DropShipTest.Employee]'.

Posted 9-Dec-14 16:58pm

christhuxavier

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Raul Iloc · Answer 1 · 2014-12-09T19:00:00

1.Your view is waiting for a Model of type "list" of Employee and you are sending to it a "list" of Anonymous type created by your LINQ selection.

2.The solution is to create a new class named EmployeeModel class that will have only those properties that are needed into your view; then you should change your view to be a "list" of this EmployeeModel. This class can be used directly in your LINQ expression above to create the model for your view like below:

C#

public class EmployeeModel
{
     public int ID{get;set;}
     public string Description{get;set;}
     public int Group{ get; set;}
     public double Price{get;set;} 
}

//...

public ActionResult Index()
        {

           var ivtfval = (from a in dbcontext.Employees
                           select new EmployeeModel { ID= a.id, Desciprion = a.descript, Group =a.grp, Price = a.price }).Take(16);
            return View(ivtfval.ToList());

        }