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C# ASP.NET MVC Forms Adding Form Validation Displaying Validation Messages

Vicky Lien
Vicky Lien
2,880 Points
Posted by Vicky Lien
Vicky Lien
2,880 Points

Capture Selected Value from Drop Down List and Display Message

This might be a silly question and not really related to validation. But I am playing with adding new Display Messages to the application and I found that displaying

TempData["Message"] = entry.Date.ToString(); would successfuly display the date, but trying

TempData["Message"] = entry.Activity.Name; does not work.

If I want to capture the name of the Activity that the user selected (not ActivityId) on Controller and do things with it, how should I do that?

Any suggestion would be helpful!