Where to put ViewModel classes in MVC

c# asp.net model viewmodel
Vivendi picture Vivendi · Feb 12, 2014 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

My question is very simple. I want to know where to put my ViewModels in an MVC application.

Currently the project I'm working on only has ViewModels and they are stored in the Models folder. In that folder we directly create ViewModel classes.

But normally I would also have Model classes, to get data from a database or something. Then from a Controller I'd 'talk' to a Model method and store the result in a ViewModel property.

But where do I put the Model classes and ViewModel classes when I use both of them? What is a good practice in the sense of structuring my files/folders for these two?

Answer

yohannes picture yohannes · Feb 12, 2014

Just create a new folder called ViewModels inside your project. So that along with the Views, Controllers and Models folders, you'll also have ViewModels. Like you already said, you talk to your DAL using your models and you talk to your views using your view models.

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