Strongly Typed Views
A strongly typed view is one that is designed to work with an object from your model (or view model, as discussed later in this chapter). You create a strongly typed view by adding the @model definition at the top of your view page. For example, you would add the following line to the top of view that works with a Customer instance.
@model AspNet5Unleashed.Models.Customer
This definition at the top of your page indicates to the MVC framework that the view expects a Customer object when the controller creates it. The controller passes this model data to the view and the runtime will assign this object to the view’s @model definition. It will also post this same customer object back to your POST ...
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