Question

I have the following LINQ code.

public List<IGrouping<Guid, ProfileImage>> GetAllUser()
{
    return _profileImageRepository.QueryProfileImage()
        .GroupBy(g => g.UserId)
        .ToList();
}

The idea is that it will retrieve all users’ profile pictures, but if a user has more than one image, only the last image to be returned.

I’m not sure it is right, but that’s not my biggest problem.

In my controller, I have the following code.

_homeViewModel.ProfileImages = _profileImageService.GetAllUser();

ViewModel:

public List<IGrouping<Guid, ProfileImage>> ProfileImages { get; set; }

My big question is, how do I use this in my view, so that I can print the correct info.

When I look at the data in the immidiate Windows so it looks like this:

Model.ProfileImages
Count = 2
    [0]: {System.Data.Objects.ELinq.InitializerMetadata.Grouping<System.Guid,Zipr.Models.ProfileImage>}
    [1]: {System.Data.Objects.ELinq.InitializerMetadata.Grouping<System.Guid,Zipr.Models.ProfileImage>}

I have tried to do this:

<ul>
    @foreach (var image in Model.ProfileImages)
    {
        <li>
            <img src="@Url.Content(String.Format("~/Content/uploads/thumbs/{0}", image.ThumbPath))" alt="" />
        </li>
    }
</ul>

Anyone have a solution how I can access my Properties ThumbPath and more?

Answer 1

It doesn’t seem you’re interested in ID; so change this to return a list of ProfileImage

public List<ProfileImage> GetAllUser()
{
    return _profileImageRepository.QueryProfileImage()
        .GroupBy(g => g.UserId)
        .Select(u => u.First() } 
        .ToList();
}

Now when your view loops over the images it will be actually getting a ProfileImage Object and not an instance of an IGrouping