Question

I have a list.

ViewBag.Meters = db.Query("SELECT * FROM Meters");

And an Id

3

How do I get Meters.Name from ViewBag.Meters, where Id = 3

As simple as possible, so that my view code is neat.

(My view currently shows only foriegn keys (ids), rather than its actual name)

Answer 1

If I wanted to do what you were doing I would create a simple utils function such as

public static string GetMeterNameById(int MeterId)
{
    return db.FirstOrDefault<Meter>("WHERE Id = @0", MeterId).Name;
}

Then inside the view just place a using for the namespace of the Utils class and then call the function

Utils.GetMeterNameById(Model.Id)

I have an enourmous Utility class that provides all kinds of flexibility when needing to return data in a clean way. Hopefully this is as efficient as I believe it to be.

Without more specifics its hard for me to tell if that would suite your application, elaborate more and I’d be glad to help.