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C# ASP.NET MVC Basics Adding a List Page Creating a List View

Josh Boersma
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Josh Boersma
Courses Plus Student 2,486 Points
Posted by Josh Boersma
Josh Boersma
Courses Plus Student 2,486 Points

Using the Razor syntax, enumerate the view's Model property

Challenge Task 1 of 1

Using the Razor syntax, enumerate the view's Model property (containing an array of VideoGame object instances) within the provided <ul> element. Use a foreach loop to render each VideoGame object's DisplayText property value within its own <li> element. Name your loop value variable videoGame. Be sure to remove the placeholder <!-- video games --> HTML comment.

It asks me if I used the view's Model property as the source for the foreach loop. I did it exactly as in the video, and it compiled and worked in my code as I followed along. Any pointers?

Index.cshtml 
@model Treehouse.Models.VideoGame[]

@{
    ViewBag.PageTitle = "Video Games";  
}

<h1>@ViewBag.PageTitle</h1>

<div>
    <ul>
      @foreach (var videoGame in Model.VideoGame)
      {
        <li>@videoGame.DisplayText</li>
      }
    </ul>
</div>

1 Answer

Justin Horner
STAFF
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Justin Horner
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Josh,

This one is a bit tricky because the Model property is set to the array itself at the top of the file. That means there's no VideoGame property. Model itself is the array.

@model Treehouse.Models.VideoGame[]
...

So you can loop through each VideoGame object like so.

...
<div>
    <ul>
      @foreach (var videoGame in Model)
      {
      <li>@videoGame.DisplayText</li>
      }
    </ul>
</div>

I hope this helps.