Question

I have a model that I’m using to pass data from my view to my controller but I have some unbound from textboxes and dropdownlists. How can I pass that unbound data from my view back to my controller using ViewData or ViewBag….or something. Thanks!

Answer 1

Can you give an example? It looks as if you’re mixing up your terminology a bit. You don’t generally pass data from a view to a controller except via a POST/GET. I’m going to assume that’s what you meant. You can get any data into your controller’s action method via a parameter with the same name or using a FormCollection.

public ActionResult SomeMethod(
                       string yourUnboundTextBoxName, 
                       FormCollection colleciton) { }

In your view it might have something like:

<div>
    <input type='text' name='yourUnboundTextBoxName' />
</div>

MVC will automatically take the value of yourUnboundTextBoxName and insert that value into the parameter of the same name. Or you can use the FormCollection and get the value from there. FormCollection["yourUnboundTextBoxName"]