[RESOLVED] Convert viewmodel to string

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

How do I convert a view model to a string? This is what I have tried but it still returning the error "Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Web.Mvc.ViewResult' to 'string'".

public string Index()
        {
            //Create a list of genres
            var genres = new List<string> { "Rock", "Jazz", "Country", "Pop", "Disco" };
 
            //Create the view model
            var viewModel = new StoreIndexViewModel
            {
                NumberOfGenres = genres.Count(), Genres = genres
            };
            return View(viewModel.ToString());
 
        }

Thanks,


Nightwalker

[Nightwalker83]

Never mind! I realized my mistake. I deleted the ActionResult that was created when the class was created. The above is suppose to look like this code:

public ActionResult Index()
        {
            //Create a list of genres
            var genres = new List<string> { "Rock", "Jazz", "Country", "Pop", "Disco" };
 
            //Create the view model
            var viewModel = new StoreIndexViewModel
            {
                NumberOfGenres = genres.Count(),
                Genres = genres
            };
            return View(viewModel);
        }

[gep13]

Hey,

Looks to me like you are doing ASP.Net MVC, rather than straight up ASP.Net, so I am going to move this thread to the MVC thread, which is where questions on ASP.Net MVC should be asked.

Gary