Question

The following code is in the /Courses/Detail action:

    [AcceptVerbs('GET')]     public ActionResult Detail(int id)     {         ViewData['Title'] = 'A View Title';         return View(tmdc.GetCourseById(id));     } 

The tmdc.GetCourseById(id) method returns an instance of type Course for the View. In the View I am using

<%= HTML.TextBox('Title')%> 

to display the value of the Title property for the Course object. Instead the text box is displaying the string A View Title. Is this normal/expected behavior? What would be the best way to handle this?

Update
As a workaround, I’ve changed ViewData['Title'] to ViewData['VIEW_TITLE'] but would like a cleaner way to handle this collision or to know if this is an expected result.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I’m not at my dev machine right now so I can’t test this, but have you tried something like this?

<%= Html.TextBox('Title', ViewData.Model.Title) %>