Question

I am new to MVC.

I have a string that I built from a controller called parsedCustomerNames. In web forms I can make the placeholder visible from the codebehind and then populate a control with the string.

How would I be able to do this in MVC.

Answer 1

I believe parsedCustomerNames is a coma separated list of customers (As opposed to a collection). You can do it like this in ASP.NET MVC:

Suppose, following is your controller:

public class HomeController : Conroller{
   public ActionResult Index(){
      ViewData["ParsedCustomerNames"] = parsedCustomerNames; //Get the string here.
      return View();
   }
}

And then inside your view, do the following:

<div class="customerName">
   <%: ViewData["ParsedCustomerNames"] as string %>
</div>