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February 28th, 2013, 02:54 PM
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Chapter 3 - Passing Data from the Layout to a Section
The code for the Footer as show on the top of page 73 is:
Code:
@RenderPage("~/Shared/_Footer.cshtml", new (Year = DateTime.Now.Year))
This gave me two errors:
(1) "Compiler Error Message: CS1031: Type expected"
And then, after I added a type:
(2) "Compiler Error Message: CS0103: The name 'Year' does not exist in the current context"
The code that worked finally:
Code:
@RenderPage("~/Shared/_Footer.cshtml", new DateTime (Page.Year = DateTime.Now.Year))
I couldn't find the errata, is this an error in the code in the book (which, I think, is very good, in every aspect!)? |
February 28th, 2013, 03:06 PM
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Hi there,
I don't have the book right here with me so I can't check. However, the downloadable code has this:
@RenderPage("~/Shared/_Footer.cshtml", new {Year = DateTime.Now.Year})
Notice it uses curly braces {} around the anonymous type for the date instead if parentheses () as per your example. Maybe it's just a typo?
Imar
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February 28th, 2013, 05:41 PM
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Yes, you're right, it was the curly brackets (my reading error) that caused the problem. But the solution I found for getting it to work anyway helped me to find a way to use the alternative notation for page data, which gives errors with the curly bracket notation and which I prefer because it stands out clearer in the code:
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@RenderPage("~/Shared/_Footer.cshtml", new DateTime (PageData["Year"] = DateTime.Now.Year))
and in the footer:
Code:
© 2012-@PageData["Year"], SomeName
This works fine, but maybe it is a clumsy way to get this result?
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March 2nd, 2013, 07:38 AM
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Yes, it's a bit weird. You're creating a new DateTime that you never use, only to assign a year to PageData.
And yes, constructor syntac (e.g. new DateTime(...) uses parentheses instead of the curly braces.
Cheers.
Imar
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May 12th, 2017, 08:21 AM
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Imar
FYI, the book is correct, I made the same typo as I didn't spot the curly braces either.
Nick
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