The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]' but requires type "Something else"

Question

I am using the following codes..

Controller:

 public ActionResult Comments(int? Id)
    {
        var abccomment= db.xyzComments.Include(c=>c.XYZMasters);
     var comments = (from x in abccomment
                        where Id == x.CcId
                        select x.Comment).Distinct().ToList();

        return View(comments);
    } 

and my view is

@model IEnumerable<Pharman.Models.XYZMaster>
@foreach (var item in Model)
    {

        @item.XYZComment.Comment
    }

I get the following error: The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List1[System.String]', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable1[farma.Models.XYZMaster].

pls help... TIA

Answer 1

Type of your ViewModel is IEnumerable<Pharman.Models.XYZMaster> but you are passing List<string>

You should change your ViewModel type to IEnumerable<string>

Then:

@model IEnumerable<string>
@foreach (var comment in Model)
{

    @comment
}