How do I get the count of a Viewbag without using model.Count

Question

How do I get the count of items from a lambda expression in a veiwbag ?

I dont want to use model.count() as I have a model directive for other models and this is for something different

here is my code

            var Count = _context.Users_Accounts_Address
         .Where(c => c.Email == user)
         .Select(c =>  c.Post_Code + " " +c.AddressType );

 ViewBag.ReturnCount = Count.CountAsync();

and my view I put

@ViewBag.ReturnCount  

At runtime However I get back

 System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[System.Int32]

Answer 1

When you call .CountAsync() you get back an asynchronous Task<T> object (in this case T is an int as that's the return type of the non-async .Count() method.

You should use either:

ViewBag.ReturnCount = Count.Count();

or

ViewBag.ReturnCount = await Count.CountAsync(); 

(if your controller is async)