With previous builds of ASP.NET MVC, you accessed the strongly typed model object passed to the view using the ViewData.Model property:

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The above syntax still works, although now there is also a top-level "Model" property on ViewPage that you can also use:

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This property does the same thing as the previous code sample - its main benefit is that it allows you to write the code a little more concisely.  It also allows you to avoid using the ViewData dictionary in cases where you want the view template to only interact with the strongly-typed model passed to it.