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hamza rafiq
hamza rafiq

Reputation: 135

MVC 5 asp.net, viewbag from controller to view is not working

this is the controller 

public ActionResult Test() {

@ViewBag.TheMessageIs = "this is the message";
return RedirectToAction("Details", new { id = theId});

}

on the view of Action Named Details I will check if it has the ViewBag to show and show it:

@{
  if(ViewBag.TheMessageIs != null){
         @ViewBag.TheMessageIs
  }
}

but here the redirection is working fine to the page, it's not show the message I have stored in ViewBag.TheMessageIs

thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4123

Answers (2)

Yoav
Yoav

Reputation: 3386

Basically what you're doing is invoking the method Details from your Index method and since you're already overloading your Details action with an id, pass it the message as well:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    //ViewBag.TheMessageIs = "this is the message";
    return RedirectToAction("Details", new { id = 1, TheMessageIs = "this is the message" });
}

public ActionResult Details(int id, string TheMessageIs)
{
    ViewBag.TheMessageIs = TheMessageIs;
    return View();
}

Then in the Details view you can access the property like this:

@ViewBag.TheMessageIs

Upvotes: 2

user7255640
user7255640

Reputation: 

public ActionResult Test() {
 TempData["shortMessage"] = "MyMessage";
 return RedirectToAction("Details", new { id = theId});
}

public ActionResult Details {
 //now I can populate my ViewBag (if I want to) with the TempData["shortMessage"] content
  ViewBag.TheMessageIs = TempData["shortMessage"].ToString();
  return View();
}

You have to do it like this since the viewbag looses its value when you redirect to another active / view

Upvotes: 1

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