accessing a model properties from another model in MVC

Hi Guys I have an mvc web application in the model i have driver model and Contact model i have created a contact property in the Driver model as i want to save only names and few things but the contact model is used by other model as well. i have created a DriverController in which i want to save details entered by user including details for the driver first name , ...etc as well as some data for the contact model including address details, the issue is when i try to access the contact information from the driver property fo it in the Driver model i couldn't access ant but i was able to acces it from the view! the first question how i would be able to do that? the second question is how do i save both at the same time into database bare in mind that Contact model got a driverID as a foreignkey so i need to be able the newly created DriverID from driver(automatically generated) to contact table I'm using MVC4 and EF6

here is my controller

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult CreateDriver(Driver driver)
{
using (var db = new localDBEntities())
{
var newDriver = db.Drivers.Create();
newDriver.FirstName = driver.FirstName;
newDriver.Surname = driver.Surname;
newDriver.BadgeNo = driver.BadgeNo;
newDriver.Contacts = driver.Contacts;
// newDriver.c
}
return View(driver);
}

here is my Contact Model

public class Contact
{
public int ContactId { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "House name/ number:")]
public string Address1 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Street name:")]
public string Address2 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Town:")]
public string Address3 { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
public string Postcode { get; set; }
public string Telephone { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; }
public DateTime DateOfBirth { get; set; }
public string NationalInsuranceNo { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection Escorts { get; set; }
public virtual Driver Drivers{ get; set; }

Here is my Driver:

public class Driver
{
Contact contact = new Contact();
CrbTraining crbt = new CrbTraining();
public CrbTraining Crbt
{
get { return this.crbt; }
set { crbt = value; }
}
public int DriverId { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "First name:")]
public string FirstName { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Surname:")]
public string Surname { get; set; }
[Display(Name="Badge number:")]
public int BadgeNo { get; set; }
public Contact Contacts
{
get { return this.contact; }
set { contact = value; }
}

here is my Razor view CreateDriver

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
CreateDriver
class="container-fluid">
class="row">
class="col-sm-6">
class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(u => u.FirstName)

class="editor-field">

@Html.TextBoxFor(u => u.FirstName)

@Html.ValidationMessageFor(u => u.FirstName)

class="col-sm-6">

class="editor-label">

@Html.LabelFor(u => u.Surname)

class="editor-field">

@Html.TextBoxFor(u => u.Surname)

@Html.ValidationMessageFor(u => u.Surname)

thanks to @Bikesh i have found where i was going wrong in the code and what i have done is created a new instance of the Contact class within the Driver controller and assigning the data from the view using the driver class property of the contact as follow :

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult CreateDriver(Driver driver)
{
using (var db = new localDBEntities())
{
var newDriver = db.Drivers.Create();
Contact myContact = new Contact();
newDriver.FirstName = driver.FirstName;
newDriver.Surname = driver.Surname;
newDriver.BadgeNo = driver.BadgeNo;
myContact.Address1.Contacts = driver.Contact.Address1;
// newDriver.c
}
return View(driver);
}

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Bikesh Srivastava9y ago
Accepted answer
Hi,
I think you are doing good ,but you need to change some little bit of code,
it will not through error whatever you have done.
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Abbas Hamza9y ago
Hi
thanks to @Bikesh i have found where i was going wrong in the code and what i have done is created a new instance of the Contact class within the Driver controller and assigning the data from the view using the driver class property of the contact as follow :
[HttpPost]
       public ActionResult CreateDriver(Driver driver)
       {
           using (var db = new localDBEntities())
           {
               var newDriver = db.Drivers.Create();
  Contact myContact = new Contact();
               newDriver.FirstName = driver.FirstName;
               newDriver.Surname = driver.Surname;
               newDriver.BadgeNo = driver.BadgeNo;
               myContact.Address1.Contacts = driver.Contact.Address1;
              // newDriver.c



           }

           return View(driver);
       }
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Abbas Hamza9y ago
@Bikesh Srivastava

but still can't access the Contact property i have declared within the driver model, I need that because i have 2 views within the createDriver view that will insert firstname into driver table and the address and postcode into the Contact table
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