Question

I have a custom class student as below:

     public class Student
     {
         public string Name {get;set;}
         public string GuardianName {get;set;}
     }

Now, I have data coming in the following data structure

      IList<Student> studInfo=new List<Student>();

I have put this data in the viewbag

      Viewbag.db=studInfo;

On the view page, when I try to use

    <table>
       <thead>
            <tr>
                 <td>Name</td>
                 <td>Guardian Name</td>
            </tr>
        </thead>

     @foreach(var stud in ViewBag.db)
     {
          <tr>
              <td>@stud.Name</td>
              <td>@stud.GuardianName</td>
          </tr>

     }
    </table>

There is an error, saying

Cannot implicitly convert type 'PuneUniversity.StudInfo.Student' to 'System.Collections.IEnumerable'

PuneUniversity is my namespace and StudInfo is the Application name. Please suggest me a solution.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The following line is unlikely to compile:

IList<Student> studInfo = new IList<Student>();

You cannot create instances of interfaces. So I guess that your actual code is different from what you have shown here.

Also I would recommend you using strongly typed views instead of ViewBag:

public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    IList<Student> students = new List<Student>();
    students.Add(new Student { Name = "foo", GuardianName = "bar" });
    return View(students);
}

and now make your view strongly typed:

@model IEnumerable<Student>

<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Guardian Name</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    @foreach(var stud in Model)
    {
        <tr>
            <td>@stud.Name</td>
            <td>@stud.GuardianName</td>
        </tr>
    }
    </tbody>
</table>