Let’s now look at a new feature we added with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta – the @model directive.  The @model directive provides a cleaner and more concise way to reference strongly-typed models from view files.

To see this in action, let’s look at a (super) simple scenario where we want to implement a /Products URL that lists product categories from a database:

Below is a simple ProductsController implementation that implements the /Products URL.  It retrieves a list of product categories from a database, and then passes them off to a view file to render an appropriate HTML response back to the browser: