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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Controllers Creating a Controller

Hamzah Iqbal
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Hamzah Iqbal
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The name `Content' does not exist in the current context

I have looked at my code for quite some time now, and I cannot find the fault here. What am I doing wrong?

VideoGamesController.cs 
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace Treehouse.Controllers
{
    public class VideoGamesController : Controller 
    {
        public ActionResult Detail()

            {
                return Content("Welcome to the Video Game Detail page!");
            }

    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

The instructions say to "return the string literal", we can assume they mean to return it directly without passing it to a function.

This would also mean that the return type of the method should be "string" instead of "ActionResult".