Question

I’m a beginner about Razor, and sometimes I get stuck with really simple things.

I have this foreach loop:

@foreach (dynamic item in ViewBag.EAList)
{
<li>
    @using (@Html.BeginForm("Duplicate, "Daily"))
    {
        <p>@item.AuthorComment</p>
        @Html.Hidden("EstadoDeAlmaID", @item.EAID)
        @Html.Hidden("PosterID", Session["id"].ToString())
        <input type="submit" value="Send" />
    }
</li>
}

This line:

@Html.Hidden("EstadoDeAlmaID", @item.EAID)

Doesn’t work, and I don’t know how to make it work, I tried many ways, without @, with (–), with @(–)…

Could someone help me to display the dynamic value in my hidden field?
In addition, if someone know about a good Razor samples websites, I would be very thankful.

Answer 1

To avoid the Extension methods cannot be dynamically dispatched exception, use a model instead of ViewBag so you will not be using dynamic objects (this will avoid all the unnecessary casting in the View and is more in line with MVC style in general):

In your action when you return the view:

return View("ViewName", db.EAList.ToList());

In your view, the first line should be:

@model IEnumerable<EAListItem> //or whatever the type name is

Then just do:

@foreach(var item in Model)