asp.net MVC3 show query result on details page - asp.net

Question

I am new to MVC3
DB has a table called users (id,name,username,lat,lon). I do not have access to the database.
I created entity model using the above table. Then, I created a SearchController and Search View. On the index page I display the list of all users. Also, I created a form on the page that searches the table using the username. After clicking on the details link I show the details page where I display the user's details.
Now I need to display other users that are within a mile of the selected user. I already have the sql query to get the list of other users that are within a mile of the selected user (This is a sql query). I need to show this list on Details page.
I created a custom class model.
public class SearchDetailsViewModel
{
public decimal id { get; set; }
public string name { get; set; }
public string username { get; set; }
public Nullable<decimal> lat { get; set; }
public Nullable<decimal> lon { get; set; }
public string profile_img_url { get; set; }
public IQueryable<user> usersWithinAMile { get; set; }
}
I am not sure if this is the right approach. Also, I do not know how I would intialize this class.
Any help or suggestion is really appreciated.

Answer 1

Yes, you are on the right track, you get the data from your SQL into the class, and then to the view, in the ActionResult, like this:
using System.Collections.Generic;
public ActionResult Index() {
var data = new List<SearchDetailsViewModel>();
// foreach row in your SQL
var s = new SearchDetailsViewModel();
s.lat = -42.00000M;
// more data added to the s object here
data.Add(s);
// end loop
return View("ThePage", data);
}
Then on your view itself you would do something like this:
#foreach (var s in Model) {
// output your values on the page
}