Question

I am learning MVC with Razor and have a simple question (I think). I am having trouble displaying the contents of a model in the view and am not sure why.

My view is a .cshtml page.
I am passing a model to it that is of type IEnumerable

I cannot get the ‘foreach’ statement to run in the below view. Interesting the <% characters are not coloured yellow in Visual Studio so I think I may have missed something. Any ideas? Here is my view code…

@model IEnumerable<HERE_MVC.Models.CheckIn>

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

<h2>Home - Main page</h2>

<% foreach (var checkIn in Model.CheckIn){ %>
   <li><%: checkIn.ID %></li>   
<% } %>

And my controller code looks like this…

    public ActionResult Home(string lat, string lon)
    {
        ViewBag.Message = "Welcome to HERE!";

        HEREModel m = new HEREModel();
        var v1 = m.GetEntitiesByLatLon(lat, lon);
        return View(v1);
    }

Thank you in advance, I’ve been trying to work this out for a while but with no luck.

Answer 1

Brush up on your Razor syntax — Razor doesn’t use bee stings (<%). Try this:

@model IEnumerable<HERE_MVC.Models.CheckIn>

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

<h2>Home - Main page</h2>

@foreach (var checkIn in Model.CheckIn) {
   <li>@checkIn.ID</li>   
}