How do I dynamically create an html table given only a table name in entity framework? - html

Question

My code is more like creating an engine that when passed a table name variable, will construct the table dynamically. This is the code I'm already working on. In my controller,
public ActionResult ViewTable(string tablename)
{
ScsContext context = new ScsContext();
List<string> columnNames = new List<string>();
var html = "<table><thead><tr>";
switch(tablename)
{
case "table1":
columnNames = typeof(table1).GetProperties().Select(a => a.Name).ToList();
foreach(var c in columnNames)
{
html += "<td>" + c.ToString() + "</td>";
}
html += "</tr></thead><tbody>";
var rows = from c in context.table1.ToList()
select c;
foreach(var c in rows)
{
foreach(var p in c.GetType().GetProperties())
{
foreach(var s in columnNames)
{
if(p.Name == s.ToString())
{
// How do I get the value here?
}
}
}
}
break;
// more case statements here based on table names
default:
break;
}
// return empty for now
return new EmptyResult();
}
I was able to loop the names of my columns in my entities, as above, and now constructing my html table based on those values.. but when I need to get the value now, I'm stucked. How do I get the value from my properties above to construct my html table based on table name variable?
And since I have more hundred tables the user want rendered, is there a simpler and more efficient way to do this?
Thanks very much,