Basically, Should everything be done through the viewmodel or is it Ok to also incorporate viewbag? Everything should be done inside a view model. That’s what a view model is. A class that you specifically define to meet the requirements of your view. Don’t mix ViewBags with ViewModels. It is no longer clear for the … Read more
if you are using razor engine template then do the following in your view write : <script> var myJsVariable=”@ViewBag.MyVariable” </script> UPDATE: A more appropriate approach is to define a set of configuration on the master layout for example, base url, facebook API Key, Amazon S3 base URL, etc …“` <head> <script> var AppConfig = @Html.Raw(Json.Encode(new … Read more
Have you tried ViewBag.SuccessBody = TempData[“successBody”];
The data you put in the ViewBag/ViewData is only available during the life-cycle of the request within which you populated it. MVC does not have post backs. If you need something to persist over more than a single request, you should use Session. Here is a decent article about the differences between ViewData, ViewBag, and … Read more
You cannot used the Helper @Html.DropdownListFor, because the first parameter was not correct, change your helper to: @Html.DropDownList(“accountid”, new SelectList(ViewBag.Accounts, “AccountID”, “AccountName”)) @Html.DropDownListFor receive in the first parameters a lambda expression in all overloads and is used to create strongly typed dropdowns. Here’s the documentation If your View it’s strongly typed to some Model you … Read more
If you pass the ViewBag into the partial’s viewdatadictionary, then pull it out (and cast), you can do whatever you want and the reference is kept. The cool part is that since it’s dynamic, you can even add properties and then they’ll show up on the parent page’s Viewbag. Page: //set the viewbag into the … Read more
To pass a string to the view as the Model, you can do: public ActionResult Index() { string myString = “This is my string”; return View((object)myString); } You must cast it to an object so that MVC doesn’t try to load the string as the view name, but instead pass it as the model. You … Read more
That should work without any problems. In my HomeController Index action I add a message to the ViewBag: ViewBag.Message = “Welcome to ASP.NET MVC!”; On the Index View I add the partial view: @Html.Partial(“ViewName”) And on the partial view I render the message: @ViewBag.Message From the comments below: there seems to be a problem when … Read more
Use @Html.Raw(ViewBag.Mydata).
I was having the same problem. Turned out I was missing the ./Views/Web.config file, because I created the project from an empty ASP.NET application instead of using an ASP.NET MVC template. For ASP.NET MVC 5, a vanilla ./Views/Web.config file contains the following: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <!– https://stackoverflow.com/a/19899269/178082 –> <configuration> <configSections> <sectionGroup name=”system.web.webPages.razor” type=”System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, … Read more