List in ViewData MVC

Question

I have the following in the controller:

List <string> strResult = new List (); 

And as will running the class will adding some information

strResult.Add ("The Text"); 
strResult.Add ("Text B"); 
strResult.Add ("Text C"); 

return View ("Index", ViewData ["result"] = new SelectList (strResult)) 

And the View

<textarea rows="10"> class="form-control" 
@ViewData["resultImport"] 
</ textarea>

But the only thing that appears is:

System.Web.Mvc.SelectList

in textarea

Answer 1

Why do you want to load a SelectList into a textarea? If you would like to return a "string list" you will need to convert your strResults variable from a List to a string in your Controller. Here is the code to do this:

string strReturnString = string.Join(",", strResult.ToArray()); 

ViewData ["result"] = strReturnString;
return View ("Index");

Then:

Use @ViewData["result"] in your View