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

Posted by Don-Alex Antoine
Don-Alex Antoine
8,207 Points

Replace ViewBag.Character

I believe i did this correctly. I don't know what else to do

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>

<h5>Description:</h5>
<div>@Model.Description</div>

<h5>Characters:</h5>
<div>
    <ul>
        @foreach (var character in @Model.Characters)
        {
            <li>@Model.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 + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,840 Points
Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,840 Points

Hi Don-Alex,

Whew, that was fun. I don't know much about this course, and I haven't progressed very far in C#, but I was able to debug this, I think.

It looks like your problem is in the second task, because your code passed the first one just fine.

In the second task, in your <ul> tag for the characters, you have:

    <ul>
        @foreach (var character in @Model.Characters)
        {
            <li>@Model.character</li>
        }
    </ul>

In the foreach loop, you've created a var called character referencing all the characters in @Model.Characters. Then you are generating a list comprised of each individual character. So your <li> should just have character in it versus @ModelCharacter.

I hope I worded this properly. I'm quite surprised I was able to figure it out. Now I have to end up doing the course, since I passed the challenge and now it's in my "In Progress" list.

Hope this helps!