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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Modeling and Presenting Data Using Strongly Typed Views

Posted by Sachini Hansini Nawalaella
Sachini Hansini Nawalaella
2,842 Points

asp.net

Update the Detail.cshtml view to be a strongly typed view. Add a model directive to strongly type the view using the Treehouse.Models.VideoGame data model type. Replace the ViewBag Title, Description, and Characters property references with the respective Model properties.

where did i get wrong???

VideoGamesController.cs 
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Treehouse.Models;

namespace Treehouse.Controllers
{
    public class VideoGamesController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Detail()
        {
            var videoGame = new VideoGame()
            {
                Title = "Super Mario 64",
                Description = "Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.",
                Characters = new string[]
                {
                    "Mario",
                    "Princess Peach",
                    "Bowser",
                    "Toad",
                    "Yoshi"
                }
            };

            return View(videoGame);
        }
    }
}
Detail.cshtml 
@model Treehouse.Models.VideoGame
@{
    ViewBag.PageTitle = "Video Game Detail";
}

<h1>@Model.Title</h1>


<div>@Model.Description</div>

<h5>Characters: @Model.Characters</h5>
<div>
    <ul>

        @foreach (var character in Model.Characters)
        {
            <li>@character</li>
        }
    </ul>
</div>
VideoGame.cs 
namespace Treehouse.Models
{
    // Don't make any changes to this class!
    public class VideoGame
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Description { get; set; }
        public string[] Characters { get; set; }
        public string Publisher { get; set; }

        public string DisplayText
        {
            get
            {
                return Title + " (" + Publisher + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Jon Wood
Jon Wood
9,884 Points
Jon Wood
Jon Wood
9,884 Points

Just by taking a quick look, I don't think you need this line: <h5>Characters: @Model.Characters</h5> The @Model.Characters is an array and it won't output a string (unless it calls ToString, but I'll have to verify that). Keep it as <h5>Characters:</h5> and see if that works.

Sachini Hansini Nawalaella
Sachini Hansini Nawalaella
2,842 Points
Sachini Hansini Nawalaella
Sachini Hansini Nawalaella
2,842 Points

no..its not working.. I still get the error "Did you remove any of the provided markup?"