Question

Please forgive me as I am just learning MVC3.

I have 2 db tables one for competitions and one for answers. For each competition there will be 3 answers associated with it.

My Create view is strongly typed to my competition model. What I want to do is add 3 unbound input boxes to that view and retrieve the results in the controller

My controller looks like this

Function Create(competition As Competition) As ActionResult
  If ModelState.IsValid Then
    db.Competitions.AddObject(competition)
    db.SaveChanges()
    Return RedirectToAction("Index")
  End If
  ViewBag.ClientID = New SelectList(db.Clients, "ClientID", "ClientName", competition.ClientID)
  Return View(competition)
End Function

What i would like to do is something like this

Function Create(competition As Competition) As ActionResult
  If ModelState.IsValid Then
    'DIM ANSWERA AS STRING = INPUTA
    'DIM ANSWERB AS STRING = INPUTB
    'DIM ANSWERC AS STRING = INPUTC

    db.Competitions.AddObject(competition)
    db.SaveChanges()
    'SAVE ANSWERS TO ANSWER TABLE

    Return RedirectToAction("Index")
  End If
  ViewBag.ClientID = New SelectList(db.Clients, "ClientID", "ClientName", competition.ClientID)
  Return View(competition)
End Function

Sorry if I have not formatted the question properly. Hopefully you get the gist of what I am trying to do

thanks

I got the above working by now I want to be able to edit competition details in a view

   Function Edit(id As Integer) As ViewResult
        Dim competition As Competition = db.Competitions.Single(Function(c) c.CompetitionID = id)



       ViewBag.ClientID = New SelectList(db.Clients, "ClientID", "ClientName", competition.ClientID)
        Return View(competition)
    End Function

So I scaffold the view which returns my competition details but how do I add 3 input boxes to display the 3 answers associated with that competition?

Answer 1

Request("NAME") will look for NAME as the name of a form element, cookie, querystring parameter or server variables.

Dim answerA as String = Request("answerA")
Dim answerB as String = Request("answerB")
Dim answerC as String = Request("answerC")

To be safe you should probably specifically target the form element called “answerA” using:

Dim answerA as String = Request.Form("answerA")

but either of the two examples above will work.