Unable to access the object which is defined in the model class - asp.net-mvc

Question

I am trying to list a data which is presented in the database and i created a class ViewingGoals and implement its business logic in the class ViewingGoalsBusinessLayer codes are as like follows
ViewingGoals.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace BusinessLayer
{
public class ViewingGoals
{
public string Goal { get; set; }
}
}
ViewingGoalsBusinessLayer.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using BusinessLayer;
namespace BusinessLayer
{
public class ViewingGoalsBusinessLayer
{
public void ViewData(ViewingGoals viewgoal)
{
try
{
string Connectionstring = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Connectionstring"].ConnectionString;
List<ViewingGoals> viewgoals = new List<ViewingGoals>();
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(Connectionstring))
{
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("ViewGoal", con);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
con.Open();
SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (rdr.Read())
{
//ViewingGoals viewgoal = new ViewingGoals();
viewgoal.Goal = rdr["Goal"].ToString();
viewgoals.Add(viewgoal);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
}
}
and my controller code is :
ViewingGoalsController.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using BusinessLayer;
namespace AppraisalManagementSystemFinal.Controllers
{
public class ViewingGoalsController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /ViewingGoals/
public ActionResult ViewingGoals()
{
ViewingGoalsBusinessLayer viewinggoalsbusinessLayer = new ViewingGoalsBusinessLayer();
List<ViewingGoals> viewgoals = viewinggoalsbusinessLayer.viewgoal.ToList();
return View(viewgoals);
}
}
}
in that controller wen i am trying to access the object from the ViewingGoalBusinessLayer
List viewgoals = viewinggoalsbusinessLayer.viewgoal.ToList(); i got error as doesnot contain a definition for viewgoal.
please help me to overcome it.

Answer 1

When you use viewinggoalsbusinessLayer.viewgoal, you are trying to access a viewgoal property from your viewinggoalsbusinessLayer object.
Problem is that you haven't defined such a property in that object !
Here is an updated part of your code
public class ViewingGoalsBusinessLayer
{
public List<ViewingGoals> ViewGoals;
public void ViewData(ViewingGoals viewgoal)
{
try
{
string Connectionstring = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Connectionstring"].ConnectionString;
Viewgoals = new List<ViewingGoals>();
// Rest of code is unchanged ...
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
}
Next problem is that you'll need to initialize that list, and I'm not sure what your ViewData function is doing...