ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Models

In short, models are data. The model is the abstraction of your application’s business logic, rules, and the information stored and retrieved by your application. Models basically define the entities with which your users interact, the rules for those interactions, and information about the data type and constraints. You need to know that the models here refer to the models supplying information to the views, and these models do not necessarily need to be the same as the objects pulled directly from your database. For example, the Order model rendered by a view in your application might not look exactly like the Order table in your database.