Create ViewBag properties based on strings

Question

Is there any way to create and use dynamic properties for ViewBag, based on strings?

Something like

ViewBag.CreateProperty("MyProperty");
ViewBag.Property("MyProperty") = "Myvalue";

Thank you

Solution

I just found out that ViewData can be used to create such properties for ViewBag

So to create property CityErrorMessage I have to use

ViewData.Add("CityErrorMessage", MyErrorMessage)

and then in the view I can use

@ViewBag.CityErrorMessage

EDIT:

I created the ViewBag's properties dynamically, because I received the name of field with validation error in a list

So the code actually is

foreach (ValidationError err in ValidationErrors)
{
    ViewData.Add(
        string.format("{0}ErrorMsg", err.PropertyName),
        err.ValidationErrorMessage);
}

Comments

[Caleb Jares]

Thank you! This took a long time to find.

[anIBMer]

thank you for explaining the relationship between ViewBag and ViewData

[Matty]

Should be noted that you can use ViewData["NameHere"] to dynamically get the value of the items you have stored.

[JEuvin]

Exception thrown: 'Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException' in Microsoft.CSharp.dll Additional information: 'System.Dynamic.DynamicObject' does not contain a definition for 'Add'

[Norbert Norbertson]

I will check the project I have with this code working. It seems others are not able to replicate it.

[Arsman Ahmad]

Having error: An exception of type 'Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException' occurred in System.Core.dll but was not handled in user code