How to display a list of objects in an MVC View?

Question

I have a method that is returning a list of strings. I simply would like to display that list in a view as plain text.

Here\'s the list from the controller:<

Answer 1

Your action method Service should return a View. After this change the return type of your Service() method from string to List

public List Service()
{
    //Some code..........
    List Dates = new List();
    foreach (var row in d.Rows)
    {
        Dates.Add(row[0]);
    }
    return Dates;
}

public ActionResult GAStatistics()
{
    return View(Service());
}

After this reference the model in your View:

@model List
@foreach (var element in Model)
{
    
@Html.DisplayFor(m => element)
}

In my example the ActionResult looks like this:

public ActionResult List()
{
    List Dates = new List();
    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
    {
        Dates.Add(String.Format("String{0}", i));
    }
    return View(Dates);
}

Which resulted in the output: