Question

I have the following Action in Controller:

public ViewResult Index()
{        
    //select
    var query = (from u in db.UserSets
                 join f in db.FriendRequestsSets on u.ID equals f.FriendID
                 orderby u.ID
                 select new {Id = u.ID, Nickname = u.Nickname}).AsEnumerable();

    ViewBag.FriendRequests = query;
    return View(this.UserColl());
}

The following foreach in my Razor view:

<ul>
@foreach (var item in ViewBag.FriendRequests)
{
    <li>@item.Nickname</li>
}
</ul>

And the following error:

*'object' does not contain a definition for 'Nickname'*

What am I missing in my code?

Answer 1

ViewBag is of type object, not an Enumerable!

What you can do, is to have a class as follow:

Class User{
  public int Id;
  public string Nickname;
  }

then populate an list of User class as bellow:

var query = (from u in db.UserSets
             join f in db.FriendRequestsSets on u.ID equals f.FriendID
             orderby u.ID
             select new User{Id = u.ID, Nickname = u.Nickname}).ToList();

and at last in your view do this:

    @foreach (var item in ViewBag.FriendRequests as List<User> )
    {
      <li>@item.Nickname</li>
    }

Hope it helps.