Displaying a Table of Database Data in MVC

Question

Made solution change: I am trying to display a html table of data.. In my controller I start an object as null and then pass the object as a reference to update the object based on the info in the DB like so "user control named(Indexcontrol.ascx)":

        List<dataob> data = null;
        dataManager target = new dataManager();
        //pass the parameter to a stored procedure and update it
        target.LoadFromDatabase(ref data);
        this.ViewData.Model =data;
        return View("Index");

I am trying to see how to display a table once the information is in the data object using a similar route all this is in the user control

 <tbody >

<% foreach (businesslayer.dataob m in  ViewData.Model) 
{ %>
<tr>
 <td><%= m.ID%></td>
 <td><%= m.Date %></td>
 <td><%= m.Description %></td>
 </tr>
 <% } %>


</tbody>

I figured out the problem....since I had the table attribute set to runat=server thats what gave me the error..don't know why but it did

Answer 1

Try:

<% foreach (dataob m in (IEnumerable<dataob>) ViewData["data"]) { %>

Answer 2

I'm not sure why you are avoiding the ViewData.Model. There is no reason, that I can see in this case, why:

 ViewData["data"] = data;

is preferrable to

 ViewData.Model = data;

If you used a strongly typed View page, you could then avoid the need to cast the Model as well. Then you could simply do:

 <% foreach (dataob m in ViewData.Model) { %>
    <tr> 
        <td><%= m.Id %></td>
        <td><%= m.user %></td>
        <td><%= m.Date %></td>
    </tr>
 <% } %>