Hello,

I am creating a products controller following the example on MVC videos.

The List method is as follows:

    public ActionResult List(int? page) {      
       dt.Products = (from p in db.Products
                            orderby p.UnitPrice
                            select p).ToPagedList(page ?? 0);
       return View("List", viewData.ToList); 
    }

In my case the products are classified using tags. Each product can have 0 to many tags, so Products table as a Many to Many relationship:

  Products > ProductsTags > Tags  

In my list I need to display all the tags associated to each post, separated by commas.

The same happens with the edit and update form.

My model is created by LinqToSQL.

I don't know exactly how to do this ... should I create a new type that encapsulates each product with its info and respective tags?

Anyway, any help would be great. 

I was also looking at repositories but I am not sure if this helps me in this situation or if it is only a way to separate the model from the code in the controller.

Thank You,

Miguel 

Perhaps you might use ViewData Dot notation, as explained in Matt Hawley blog post http://blog.eworldui.net/post/2008/05/ViewData-quot3bdotquot3b-Notation-Expressions-in-ASPNET-MVC.aspx

In that case you might create another class as wrapper around Product and its tags, as you already mentioned.