Question

I have the following code in my controller:

// GET: /Review/Create
public ActionResult Create()
    {
        var userGames = db.tblGames.Where(g => g.UserName == User.Identity.Name);
        ViewBag.GameIDFK = new SelectList(userGames, "GameID", "GameName");
        return View(new tblReview { UserName = @User.Identity.Name });
    } 

// POST: /Review/Create

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Create(tblReview tblreview)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            db.tblReviews.Add(tblreview);
            db.SaveChanges();
            return RedirectToAction("Index");
        }

        var userGames = db.tblGames.Where(g => g.UserName == User.Identity.Name);
        ViewBag.GameIDFK = new SelectList(userGames, "GameID", "GameName");
        return View(new tblReview { UserName = @User.Identity.Name });
    }

And i want to add this line of code to it:

        return View(new tblReview { Posted = DateTime.Now });

But i dont know how to combine the code together. I have tried a If statement but the application fell apart as in it was just throwing errors everywhere.

The reason i want to add these to codes together is so when a review is written the viewer can see the date the review was posted. I have a posted attribute in my database table and model for that looks like this:

namespace TestWebSite.Models
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    public partial class tblReview
    {
        public int ReviewID { get; set; }
        public string Recomendation { get; set; }
        public string AvoidOrBuy { get; set; }
        public string Score { get; set; }
        public System.DateTime Posted { get; set; }
        public int GameIDFK { get; set; }
        public string UserName { get; set; }

        public virtual tblGame tblGame { get; set; }
    }
}

Thank you

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Answer 1

I admint that I don’t understand extactly the relation form tblReview and NewsItem, but if you want to expose that information without setting it in the ViewModel, I think the only way is to use the ViewBag.

Something like

ViewBag.NewsItem = new NewsItem() { Posted = DateTime.Now };

and then accessing it from the view.

I honestly would create a specific viewmodel holding all the information the view needs, but if there is not other way I guess this is an alternative.

Update

After the change you made I don’t see why this should not work

return View(new tblReview { UserName = @User.Identity.Name, Posted = DateTime.Now });