Question

I am trying to create a poll/voting application and want to keep track of the amount of votes that are made for the options. When a vote is made, an id is passed in and depending on the id – the counter is increased by one. But when I vote it sets the other counter back to one.

    // ID of the option selected:
    public int VotedID { get; set; }

    Counters for the options:
    public int BlueCornerPercent { get; set; }
    public int RedCornerPercent { get; set; }


    // Snippet of code - here is where I increase the counters. theFight is an instance of the model/entity.
    public void HandleVotes(Fight fight)
    {

        // Get full fight details:
        Fight theFight = db.Fights.Find(fight.FightId);

        // Get fighters id's in fight:
        var f1 = (from l in theFight.Fighters
                  select l).First();

        var f2 = (from l in theFight.Fighters
                  select l).Last();

        if (theFight.VotedID == f1.FighterID)
        {
            theFight.BlueCornerPercent++;
            db.SaveChanges();
        }

        else if (theFight.VotedID == f2.FighterID)
        {
            theFight.RedCornerPercent++;
            db.SaveChanges();
        }
    }

As seen I’m passing in the “Fight” that is being voted on and changing the counter from there…

Answer 1

I found the solution, I needed to include hidden attributes for the counters in my view to keep them from resetting.