Model Binding not working

Question

I have the following POCO classes:

public class Location
    {
        public int LocationId { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
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Answer 1

Here's the problem:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(LocationViewModel location)

Do you see it? It's the name of your action argument: location.

Look at your view model now, it has a property named Location:

public Location Location { get; set; }

This confuses the model binder. It no longer knows whether you need to bind the LocationViewModel or its property.

So simply rename to avoid the conflict:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(LocationViewModel model)