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

Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points
Posted by Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points

Don't understand the error message..

The instructions don't make reference to removing this Title reference.

VideoGamesController.cs 
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Treehouse.Models.VideoGame;

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>@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 + ")";
            }
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

The instructions say "Add a using directive for the Treehouse.Models namespace." But you added a using for "Treehouse.Models.VideoGame" instead.

Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points
Herman Vicens
Herman Vicens
12,540 Points

Ok. I fixed that. but the error is still the same:

Bummer! Did you remove the 'ViewBag.Title' property assignment to 'Video Game Detail'?

I removed, I got it back, I assigned to DisplayText, and many other useless intents and keep getting this error. No idea what they want or what is it that I am doing wrong. Not getting compile errors.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Oh, I thought you were on task 1! For your task 2 code you have "model" (lower-case "m") instead of "Model" (capital "M"). Only the model directive should have lower case.

Also the semicolon at the end of the line setting "PageTitle" seems to be misising.