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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Views Using ViewBag

Posted by Amy Shah
Amy Shah
25,337 Points

I am very confused on this question - ASP.NET basics question

I am not sure what to do. I have been examining the question for a long time now. I could use a few suggestions.

VideoGamesController.cs 
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace Treehouse.Controllers
{
    public class VideoGamesController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Detail()
        {
            return View();
        }
    }
}
Detail.cshtml 
@{
    Layout = null;

    var title = "Super Mario 64";
    var description = "Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.";
    var characters = new string[]
    {
        "Mario",
        "Princess Peach",
        "Bowser",
        "Toad",
        "Yoshi"
    };
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Video Game Detail</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        <h1>@title</h1>

        <h5>Description:</h5>
        <div>@description</div>

        <h5>Characters:</h5>
        <div>
            <ul>
                @foreach (var character in characters)
                {
                    <li>@character</li>
                }
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

James Churchill
STAFF
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher
James Churchill
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher

Amy,

Sorry to hear that you're struggling with this code challenge. There are two parts to this challenge:

1) For the first task, you'll move the title, description, and characters variable values to the controller Detail action method. To do that, you'll need to define properties on the ViewBag object. For instance, you'll set a ViewBag.Title property value to the value "Super Mario 64".

2) For the second task, you'll remove the title, description, and characters variables from the Detail.cshtml view and replace any references to those variables with the respective ViewBag properties. For instance, remove the title variable and update the "<h1>" element content to be "@ViewBag.Title".

Hopefully this helps clarify the challenge a bit. Please let me know how it goes.

Thanks ~James

Amy Shah
Amy Shah
25,337 Points
Amy Shah
Amy Shah
25,337 Points

Thank you. I did work through this and got an answer. I appreciate all the people who helped with my questions