Type or namespace could not be found
- by Jason Shultz
I'm using LINQ to SQL to connect my database to my home page. I created my datacontext (named businessModel.dbml) In it I have two tables named Category and Business.
In home controller I reference the model and attempt to return to the view the table:
var dataContext = new businessModelDataContext();
var business = from b in dataContext.Businesses
select b;
ViewData["WelcomeMessage"] = "Welcome to Jerome, Arizona!";
ViewData["MottoMessage"] = "Largest Ghost Town in America!";
return View(business);
and in the view I have this:
<%@ Import Namespace="WelcomeToJerome.Models" %>
and
<% foreach (business b in (IEnumerable)ViewData.Model)
{ %>
<li><%= b.Title %></li>
<% } %>
Yet, in the view business is cursed with the red underline and say's that The type or namespace name 'business' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
What am I doing wrong? This has had me stumped all afternoon.
link to all the code in pastebin: http://pastebin.com/es4RnS2q
