I’m dont know how to bind an IDictionary list to a MVC WebGrid. This is what I have so far

 public List<IDictionary> GetAddress()
        {
            List<IDictionary> names = new List<IDictionary>();
        //List<string> names = new List<string>();
            using (MVCDBEntities example = new MVCDBEntities())
            {
                var Uus = from U1 in example.Users where U1.Name != null select U1;
                names = Uus.OfType<IDictionary>().ToList();
            }
            return names;
        }

I now need to some how bind  this to a webgrid, how would I achieve this ?

Hi,

taken from

http://forums.asp.net/t/1719060.aspx?Binding+MVC3+webgrid+from+DataTable+AsEnumerable+:

Model method:

public List<IDictionary> FetchEmployeeDetails()
         {
             DataSet dsEmployee = new DataSet();
             DbCommand dbCmd = m_DbAccess.SqlDb.GetStoredProcCommand("Test_FetchEmployeeDetails");
             dbCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
             dsEmployee = m_DbAccess.SqlDb.ExecuteDataSet(dbCmd);

             return ConvertToListDictionary(dsEmployee.Tables[0]);
         }

Controller Code:

public ActionResult FetchDataForGrid()
         {
             EmployeeModels modelObject = new EmployeeModels();
             var resultSet = modelObject.FetchEmployeeDetails();
             return View(resultSet);
        }

View Code:

@using System.Dynamic
 @model List<System.Collections.IDictionary>
 @{
     var result = new List<dynamic>();

     foreach (var emprow in Model)
     {
         var row = (IDictionary<string, object>)new ExpandoObject();
         Dictionary<string, object> eachEmpRow = (Dictionary<string, object>)emprow;

         foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> keyValuePair in eachEmpRow)
         {
             row.Add(keyValuePair);
         }
         result.Add(row);
     }
     var grid = new WebGrid(result);
 }

 @if (@Model != null)
 {
     @grid.GetHtml(tableStyle: "grid", headerStyle: "head", alternatingRowStyle: "alt");
 }

Grz, Kris.

Thanks for the reply, I am just getting an error with the IDictionary list anyways thanks for your time.  Is there anyway you can just use a asp.net Gridview control with something like this with the entity framework ? As binding data to a webgrid in mvc
is a joke, so much extra work, in php its easier than this

Hi,

you can’t really make use of the gridview in MVC.

What you can do, and what I did in the past, is make use of jqGrid and bind the grid client side. There are also commercial tools for this like KendoUI and others.

Grz, Kris.