Models in ASP.NET MVC

Models in ASP.NET MVC Explained

A model is a class that contains the business logic of your application. It also used for accessing data from the database. The model class does not handle directly input from the browser. In MVC, it is the Controller that handle input from the browser directly and process the request by receiving data from the model and pass it back to view as response. It does not contain any HTML code either.

It is a best practice but not mandatory for developers to not have any communications with the view directly, models should only contain a POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) classes. All processing logic and communication with the view should be handled by another layer called Viewmodels.

Models are also refers as objects that are used to implement conceptual logic for the application. A controller interacts with the model, access the data, perform the logic and pass that data to the view.

Note that it is not mandatory, but it is a good programming practice to store all model classes within the Models folder of MVC application.

Creating a Model

Let's add a new model in exiting project created in our previous article here. Model contains set and get for its properties.

To add the model, just right click on the Models folder of the project, select Add then click on New Item as shown below

Under Visual C# installed template, click on Code on the left hand side of the Add new Item window select Class from the middle panel of the window as shown below;

Enter the name of the model class as Employee and click on Add as shown below;

Enter the properties of our Employee Class (Model) as follows;

Id, First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Sex, Date of Birth, Address and phone number

The properties should entered in between the opening and closing curly brace of the Employee Class as shown below

This article is referenced from the JavaTPoint here