ASP.NET Core MVC Employee Management – Index View with Modal Form and AJAX Create
✅ 1) Why did asp-for show an error like: “IEnumerable<Employee> does not contain a definition for 'Name'…” Explanation: At the top of your Razor view you have: @model IEnumerable<DemoEmsCoreMVCMarch2025.Models.Employee> which means: “This view expects a model that is a collection (list) of Employee objects.” But later in your modal form you wrote: < input asp-for = "Name" ... /> The asp-for tag helper looks for a property named Name on the model . But your model is IEnumerable<Employee> (i.e., a collection of employees). A collection doesn’t have properties like Name , Gender etc. Those belong to a single Employee . That’s why you get: “IEnumerable<Employee> does not contain a definition for 'Name'…” Why is dummy used? In the table header, we often use: @Html.DisplayNameFor(m => dummy.Name) Why? DisplayNameFor needs to know whi...