Error when retrieving records - asp.net-mvc

Question

I'm a beginner in ASP.NET MVC. I'm getting a error while trying to retrieve records from the database.
'System.Collections.Generic.List'
does not contain a definition for 'CategoryName'
LINQ to SQL Class:
Model:
namespace MvcApplication1.Models
{
public class CategoryRepository
{
private BusDataClassesDataContext dc = new BusDataClassesDataContext();
public List<tblCategory> GetAllCategory()
{
return dc.tblCategories.ToList();
}
}
}
Controller:
public class CategoryController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /Category/
CategoryRepository cat = new CategoryRepository();
public ActionResult ViewCategory()
{
var category = cat.GetAllCategory().ToList();
return View("ViewCategory", category);
}
}
View:
<p>
Category Name:<%=Html.Encode(Model.CategoryName)%>
</p>
<p>
Description:<%= Html.Encode(Model.Description)%>
</p>
UPDATE:

Answer 1

You are passing List<tblCategory> to the view. Hence the Model here will be the generic list. That is the reaons why you are getting the error message:-
'System.Collections.Generic.List' does not contain a definition for 'CategoryName'
Did you intend to pass tblCategory or else did you intend to iterate thought the model to get to each tblCategory?
You can do this way
<% foreach(var category in Model)
{%>
<p>
Category Name:<%=Html.Encode(category.CategoryName)%>
</p>
<p>
Description:<%= Html.Encode(category.Description)%>
</p>
<% } %>
On a little bit different note.
You are already returning the type as GenericList in your method.
public List<tblCategory> GetAllCategory()
{
return dc.tblCategories.ToList();
}
You don't need to again perform an ambiguous .ToList() conversion.
var category = cat.GetAllCategory().ToList();

Answer 2

Use this::
<% foreach (var category in Model)
ruther than ::
#foreach (var category in Model)
in the view.
Like This
<% foreach (var category in Model)
{ %>
<p>
Category Name :<%=Html.Encode(category.CategoryName)%></p>
<p>
Description :<%=Html.Encode(category.Description)%></p>
<% } %>