So I was trying out the Chart helpers in the System.Web.Helpers namespace.
according to http://www.asp.net/web-pages/tutorials/data/7-displaying-data-in-a-chart
I make the chart in a .cshtml view but I wanted to keep it in the ViewModel instead.
No problem except for when I'm trying to render it as a smaller image in the website.
I thought the cleanest solution would be to create one shared partial view to render graphs from models
_graph.cshtml
@model System.Web.Helpers.Chart
@Model.Write()
And then render this partial view somehow in the proper websites. I tried a few versions but can't seem to get it to work.
Website.cshtml
<div>
<h2>Some header above a graph</h2>
<img src="@Html.Partial("_graph", Model.TheChart)" />
</div>
This doesn't work and I'm not certain how to do this. Only think I can think of now is making all models with charts inherit an Interface that exposes Chart and let that be the model for _graph.cshtml.
<img src="_graph.cshtml" />
But not sure if the this uses the Model.
Any opinions?
<div>
<h2>Some header above a graph</h2>
<img src="@Url.Action("DrawChart")" />
</div>
and then you could have a controller action:
public ActionResult DrawChart()
{
MyViewModel model = ...
return View(model);
}
and a corresponding view that will draw the chart (DrawChart.cshtml
):
@model MyViewModel
@{
// TODO: use the data from the model to draw a chart
var myChart = new Chart(width: 600, height: 400)
.AddTitle("Chart Title")
.AddSeries(
name: "Employee",
xValue: new[] { "Peter", "Andrew", "Julie", "Mary", "Dave" },
yValues: new[] { "2", "6", "4", "5", "3" })
.Write();
}
and the rendered result:
<div>
<h2>Some header above a graph</h2>
<img src="@Url.Action("DrawChart")" />
</div>
public ActionResult DrawChart()
{
MyViewModel model = ...
return View(model);
}
!!! To send the Model parameter to DrawChart
Change to
<div>
<h2>Some header above a graph</h2>
<img src="@Url.Action("DrawChart",Model)" />
</div>
public ActionResult DrawChart(MyViewModel _MyViewModel )
{
MyViewModel model = MyViewModel ;
return View(model);
}
MyViewModel is Null
Seek advice from those who know.