Ch. 5 pg. 96 What happened?

MGriessler · October 5th, 2011, 02:44 PM

We went from taking about HTML helpers to all of a sudden we have a fully formatted webpage and the search code for the Home Controller doesn't work, not the mention the fact that we don't have a storeDB, and MVCMusicStoreDB kicks an error. Did I miss something?

MGriessler · October 5th, 2011, 03:10 PM

I managed to consult some people who are well versed in this sort of thing and I have figured it out. storeDB is an instance of the MvcMusicStoreDB database but it has to be declared as such. So, before

Code:

 var albums = storeDB.Albums

insert

Code:

MvcMusicStoreDB storeDB = new MvcMusicStoreDB();

So you have this:

Code:

public ActionResult Search(string q)
{
    MvcMusicStoreDB storeDB = new MvcMusicStoreDB();

    var albums = storeDB.Albums
        .Include("Artist")
        .Where(a -> a.Title.Contains(q) || q == null)
        .Take(10);
    return View(albums);
}

I'm still confused as to where the nicely formatted website came from. Does anyone know?

JonGalloway · December 9th, 2011, 09:53 PM

Sorry this wasn't clear - we'll try to make this more straightforward in the next version of this book. For MVC Music Store related samples, you can always consult the the base MVC Music Store tutorial at http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com