Wrapping my head around MVC - one page, two views

I am really loving MVC, only really immersed in it for a couple of months but it is all coming together for me lately.  The most difficult challenge I faced in the beginning was generating a mixed context view, by that I mean something more akin to a normal web page. Maybe some header information at top and a grid of data below.  At first it was really easy to get something like a customers orders in the grid but how to display another grid of customer address information on the same page.  So to accomplish this lets say that you have a class that has the orders info.

Orders.cs
customerid
orderid
balance
description

And you have a customer class
Customers.cs
customerid
customername
streetaddress

Cust_ordersDTO.cs
CustomerID
orderid
balance
description
CustomerName
StreetAddress
public List<Cust_orders> AddressList { get; set; }
public List<Cust_orders> OrderList { get; set; }

So you will need to make a new class that has all properties combined into one for your view to use.  Add a couple of lists,  as I did  see the red items above, so you will be able to separate your data into different groups - I am only going to use one in this example but made the other one in case I needed it.

Then in your controller you can have two methods to populate each section of your page

Populate your header like this:

var bl = new Myproject.Business.myCustomer_provider();
var headerinfo = new  List<Cust_ordersDTO>();
headerinfo = bl.GetCustomerHeader().ToList();
Then drop the results into a ViewBag
ViewBag.HeaderInfo = headerinfo;

Populate your orders as normal returning the view from your controller.

Then on the page there are two ways to display your header information, incidentally, I am using an IEnumerable version of my model.  

You can just loop through your Viewbag items like this:

@foreach (var item in ViewBag.HeaderInfo)
  {
      @item.BusinessName  
     
@item.CustomerID
     
@item.StreetAddress
       
@item.CustomerName                       
      

  }

or if you want to be able to manipulate the data such as in a form you can assign the Viewbag info into a model object

 var hdinfo = ( List<Cust_ordersDTO>)ViewBag.HeaderInfo;

     foreach (var item in hdinfo)
  {    
         @Html.TextBoxFor(model => item.CustomerID,new {  @readonly = "readonly" })
        @Html.DisplayFor(model => item.CustomerName)  
         @Html.DisplayFor(model => item.StreetAddress)  
            *you could even put it in textboxes for update
         @Html.TextBoxFor(model => item.StreetAddress,new {style = "width: 200px;"})
  }