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I believe the reason you're not getting the correct values is because you're using Html.TextAreaFor the wrong way. The x in your code points to your Page.Model attribute while your val is not related to that attribute in a way that ASP.NET MVC2 can understand.

You could change your code to look something like this:

<%using (Html.BeginForm("MeetingTodo", "OA", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "TaskForm" }))
{%><%=Html.Hidden("id",ViewContext.RouteData.Values["id"]) %>
<div class="container">
var ix = 0;
<%foreach (var val in Model.Distinct())
{ %>
    <div class="grdrow" > 
        <div class="grdrightcaption" style="width:173px;" ><%=val.setupEmployee.EmployeeName%></div>
        <div class="grdcells" ><%=Html.TextArea(String.Format("employee[{0}].Todo", ix), val.Todo, new { maxlength = 200, style="width:300px;" })%>
            <%=Html.Hidden(String.Format("employee[{0}].EmployeeID", ix), val.EmployeeID)%>
        </div>
        <div class="grdcells" style="width:50px;" >
            <%=Html.CheckBox(String.Format("employee[{0}].Required", ix), val.Required)%>
        </div>
    </div>
<% ++ix 
}%>
</div>
<br />
<button type="submit" class="button">save</button>                
<%}%>

And then in your action declaration decorate your parameters as following:

public ActionResult MeetingTodo([Bind(Prefix = "employee")]Employee[] employees)

A better and cleaner way would be to do this though.

<% for (int i = 0; i < Model.Count(); ++i) 
{ %>
<%= Html.HiddenFor(m => m[i].SomeAttribute) %>
<div><%= Html.TextAreaFor(m => m[i].SomeTextAttribute) %></div>
<% } %>

Emil Badh 2010-10-04 10:49:46

Thanks for reply Emil. i changed foreach to for. now EmployeeID and Todo collections contain five elements each that is equal to number of controls on the form(correct). but the problem is that entries in these collections are null for Todo and 0 for EmployeeID. m i missing somethings?

Muhammad Adeel Zahid 2010-10-04 11:42:07

Could you post how your markup looks now as well as how your action method signature looks? I might be able to help better that way.

Emil Badh 2010-10-04 12:01:59

Edited the question to contain markup and signature of actionresult. plz c edit no 1

Muhammad Adeel Zahid 2010-10-04 13:03:30

Answer 2

+1 A:

Is it possible to see what your view code look like?

It should look something like this:

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<IEnumerable<Employee>>" %>
// Other code not in your example
<%using (Html.BeginForm("MeetingTodo", "OA", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "TaskForm" }))
{%>
<%=Html.Hidden("id",ViewContext.RouteData.Values["id"]) %>
<div class="container">
<% for (int i = 0; i < Model.Count(); ++i)
   { %>
   <div class="grdrow" > 
       <div class="grdrightcaption" style="width:173px;" >
           <%= Model[i].setupEmployee.EmployeeName%>
       </div>
       <div class="grdcells" >
           <%= Html.TextAreaFor(x => x[i].Todo, new { maxlength = 200, style="width:300px;" })%> <%= Html.HiddenFor(x => x[i].EmployeeID)%>
       </div>
       <div class="grdcells" style="width:50px;" >
           <%=Html.CheckBoxFor(x =>  x[i].Required) %>
       </div>
   </div>
<% }%>
</div>
<br />
<button type="submit" class="button">save</button>                
<%}%>
// Other code not in your example

And your action method signature should look like this:

public ActionResult MeetingTodo(IEnumerable<Employee> Employees,
    FormCollection collection,
    int id)

I don't remember of the top of my head if you can set the type to IEnumerable<Employee> or if you have to set it to Employee[] in the action method signature, but one or the other should work.

Also note that on the first line you have to make sure you include the namespace in the Inherits attribute as such: System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<IEnumerable<Namespace1.Namespace2.Namespace3.Employee>> and of course use whatever real name your employee class has.

Hope this helps.

Emil Badh 2010-10-05 07:59:55

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