Question

I am facing problem in displaying the column field value at the view.

I am returning view like follows.

var TicketList = (from T in db.Tickets                   where  T.Title.Contains('a')                   select new {                         customerName = (                              from cname in db.Customers                              where cname.CustomerId == T.CustomersId                              select cname.FirstName + cname.LastName                         ) ,                         Title = T.Title                   }).ToList();   return View('SearchTicketsResult',TicketList); 

and at the view page I have

<%foreach (TicketList ti in (IEnumerable)ViewData.Model) {%>     <%=ti.Title%><br />     <%=ti.customerName %> <% } %> 

I am not able to list customername or the title in the page. It says ‘The type or namespace name ‘TicketList’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)’

Can someone guide me please.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

‘TicketList’ is the variable name for a list of an anonymous type. There is no ‘TicketList’ type. Casting from anonymous types can be done (‘by example’), but is very brittle, and I simply don’t recommend you use an anonymous type for this.

One option would be to declare my own type (in the UI’s ‘model(s)’ folder) – for example TicketSummary / TicketLite (etc), with a Title and CustomerName. Then use this type:

public class TicketSummary {       public string CustomerName { get; set; }      public string Title { get; set; } }  var ticketList = (from t in db.Tickets                   where  t.Title.Contains('a')                   select new TicketSummary                   {                       CustomerName = (                           from cname in db.Customers                           where cname.CustomerId == t.CustomersId                           select cname.FirstName.ToString()                       ).FirstOrDefault(),                       Title = t.Title                   }).ToList(); return ticketList; 

Then you should be able to use:

<%foreach (TicketSummary ts in (IEnumerable<TicketSummary>)ViewData.Model) {%>     <%=ts.Title%><br />     <%=ts.customerName %> <% } %> 

In reality, I’d probably offload this work to a repository, and have a repository method that returns a list of the summary type.