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

Huy Tran
Huy Tran
344 Points

Object reference not set to an instance of an Object

HomeController.cs

namespace net.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {


        public ActionResult Detail()
        {
        var home = new ComicBooks()
        {
            Artists = new Artist[]
            {
                new Artist() { Name = "Dan Slott", Role="Script" },
                new Artist() { Name = "Humberto Ramos", Role="Pencils"},
                new Artist() { Name = "Victor Olazaba", Role="Inks"},
                new Artist() { Name = "Edgar Delgado", Role="Colors"},
                new Artist() { Name = "Chris Eliopoulos", Role="Letters"},
            }
        };
        Console.WriteLine(home.Artists.Length);    
            return View(home);
        }
    }
}

ComicBooks.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;



namespace net.Models
{
    public class ComicBooks
    {
        public int Id{get;set;}
        public string SeriesTitle{get;set;}
        public int IssueNumber{get;set;}
        public string DescriptionHTMl{get;set;}
        public Artist[] Artists {get; set;} 
        public bool Favorite { get; set;}

        public string DisplayText 
        {
            get
            {
                return SeriesTitle + " #" + IssueNumber;
            }
        }
        public string CoverImageFiles
        {
            get
            {
                return SeriesTitle.Replace(" ","-").ToLower() + "-" + IssueNumber + ".jpg";
            }

        }


    }
}

Detail.cshtml

@page

@model net.Models.ComicBooks

@{
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
    var description = "<p>Final issue! Witness the final hours of Doctor Octopus' life and his one, last, great act of revenge! Even if Spider-Man survives... <strong>will Peter Parker?</strong></p>";
}

        <div>
            @Html.Raw(description)
        </div>
        <div>
            <ul>
                @foreach(var artist in Model.Artists)
                {
                    <li>
                        @artist.Name
                    </li>
                }
            </ul>
        </div>

I am using asp.net core 2.0. Keep getting this error for some reason, Please help

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

The entire error message should identify a file, line and column. What's the rest of it?

Huy Tran
Huy Tran
344 Points
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel[13]
      Connection id "0HLC95AVGB5OA", Request id "0HLC95AVGB5OA:00000002": An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at AspNetCore._Views_Home_Detail_cshtml.get_Model()
   at AspNetCore._Views_Home_Detail_cshtml.<ExecuteAsync>d__0.MoveNext() in /Users/MaiKhoi/Documents/net/Views/Home/Detail.cshtml:line 15

So the error come from this line

 @foreach(var artist in Model.Artists)

1 Answer

Amar Resic
Amar Resic
2,922 Points

I'm having the same problem but in the if statement @if (Model.Artists.Length > 0).