Question

I have been reading and reading , and I can’t seem to get this to work at all. I am very very new to asp.net MVC – after all the tutorials I read I finally got this much accomplished.

public class EventsController : Controller
{
    private EventsDBDataContext db = new EventsDBDataContext();
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var a = (from x in db.tblEvents
                 where x.StartDate >= DateTime.Now
                 select x).Take(20).ToList();
        return View(a);
    }
}

This is successfully finding 20 rows (like it is supposed to). Now how do I display these in the view ?? Does it have to be a strongly typed view?? It doesn’t seem like it should have to be… I have tried both , I tried typing a whole view, but for now it would be nice to just get one property of tblEvents to show up in the view. This is not working, I have tried many many variations.

@{foreach( var item in Model){

      @Html.DisplayFor( item.ID)

  }
}

How do I get the results from the controller displayed in the view? Just the ID is good for now – I can go from there.

Answer 1

The problem is that your View doesn’t know what type your Model is. Use the @model syntax to define the type of your model.

@model List<YourEventClass>

@foreach( var item in Model )
{
   @item.ID<br />
}

See i.e. here for more information