Question

Every time I add a new App It creates a new AppCategory. I am seriously screwing this up somehow

code first entity framework objects

public class AppCategory
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public ICollection<App> apps { get; set; }
}

public class App 
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public AppCategory Category { get; set; }
}

Editor Template (I would love to just make just one Foreign Key EditorTemplate)

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage
@Html.DropDownList("Category", LIG2010RedesignMVC3.Models.Repo.GetAppCategoriesSelect())

and of course the repository

    public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> GetAppCategoriesSelect()
    {
        return (from p in GetAppCategories()
                select new SelectListItem
                {
                    Text = p.Name,
                    Value = p.ID.ToString(),

                });
    }


    public static ICollection<AppCategory> GetAppCategories()
    {
        var context = new LIGDataContext();
        return context.AppCategories.ToList();
    }

Every time I add a new App It creates a new AppCategory I am seriously screwing this up somehow

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Adding more debug info

 @inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage
 @Html.DropDownList("", LIG2010RedesignMVC3.Models.Repo.GetAppCategoriesSelect())

gives me a validation message on the post

 Parameters  application/x-www-form-urlencoded
 Category   1
 Name   8

Validation error The value ‘1’ is invalid.
This makes sense because Category should be an object not an integer.

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Controller Code as asked for
pretty sure this isnt the problem as it came from MVCScaffold

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Create(App d)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
          context.Apps.Add(d);
          context.SaveChanges();
          return RedirectToAction("Index");  
        }
        return View();
     }

Answer 1

My model was incorrectly set up … virtual ICollection and just the foreign key id for the sub and everything worked… changes below

Model

public class AppCategory
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public **virtual** ICollection<App> Apps { get; set; }
}

public class App 
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    ********************************************
    [UIHint("AppCategory")]
    public int AppCategoryID { get; set; }
    ********************************************
    public string Name { get; set; }

}

public class LIGDataContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<AppCategory> AppCategories { get; set; }
    public DbSet<App> Apps { get; set; } 
}

/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/AppCategory.cshtml

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage
@Html.DropDownList("", LIG2010RedesignMVC3.Models.Repo.GetAppCategoriesSelect())

AppController

 [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Create(App d)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
          this.repository.Add(d);
          this.repository.Save();
          return RedirectToAction("Index");  
        }
        return View();
    }