ASP.NET MVC3 Model Binding using IEnumerable (Cannot infer type from)

Question

I have a model class (edited for brevity)

Model Class

public class GridModel
{
   public string ItemNumber { get; set; }
   public int OnHandQty     { get; set; }
}
public class Shipment
{
  public string shipTrackingNo               {get; set;}
  public IEnumerable<GridModel> ItemsShipped { get; set;}
{

cshtml page

@model Namespc.Models.Shipment

<link href="../../Content/CSS/Grid/Grid.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../../Scripts/ECommerce.Grid.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<div id="_shipmentDetailGrid">
    <table class="TableStyle">
     <tr class="GridRowStyle">
       <td width="130px" ></td>
         @foreach (var Item in Model.ItemsShipped)
           {
             <td width="70px" align="center">
                   @html.LabelFor(item.OnHandQty) <-- Cannot infer type from usage
             </td>
           }
       </tr>

I want to be able to bind item.OnHandQty that resides in the IEnumerable collection. How can you have a Model class and also an IEnumerable collection of a custom class (or rather you own class)?

Answer 1

Well, what is the type of the items stored in ItemsShipped? You should use the generic version of IEnumerable to indicate what types are stored within it.

If your class was named Item, you would declare it IEnumerable<Item> then, when iterating at run time, ie @foreach (var Item in Model.ItemsShipped), the type of Item will be strongly-typed instead of a plain object.