Question

Passing data (simple string) from Controller to View I have in my controller:

 public ActionResult Create()
        {
            ViewData["user"] = System.Environment.UserName.ToUpper();
            return View();
        }

and in my cshtml

<h2>Welcome <%=Html.Encode(ViewData["user"]) %></h2>

I checked and verifieid that the username does get populated, however, it does not get displayed on the page.

What am I doing wrong?

Using asp.net mvc 3 with Razor

Answer 1

Those alligator tags (<%= %>) are from the old ASP.NET view engine.

You need to use Razor syntax:

<h2>Welcome @Html.Encode(ViewData["user"])</h2>

But as other posters pointed out, the Razor engine prefers to encode HTML by default, so all you need is:

<h2>Welcome @ViewData["user"]</h2>

If you ever want to not encode something, use the Html.Raw() method.