C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

Fetch the model in the controller

Open the HomeController class.

Import the Packt.CS7 namespace.

Add a field to store a reference to a Northwind instance, and initialize it in a constructor, as shown in the following code:

private Northwind db; public HomeController(Northwind injectedContext) {    db = injectedContext; } 

Modify the contents of the Index action method, as shown in the following code:

var model = new HomeIndexViewModel {    VisitorCount = (new Random()).Next(1, 1001),   Categories  = db.Categories.ToList(),    Products = db.Products.ToList() }; return View(model); // pass model to view 

We have simulated a visitor count using the Random class to generate a number between 1 and 1000.