AutoComplete Events in PartialView = "Cannot use a lambda expression..." Error

[Chad]

Per the documentation I am trying to add Events to the autocomplete helper so I can lookup the value of the selected item (as seen in this post), but when doing so am getting the following error on line 10:

Compilation Error

 

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

 

Compiler Error Message: CS1977: Cannot use a lambda expression as an argument to a dynamically dispatched operation without first casting it to a delegate or expression tree type

 

Source Error:

 

 

Line 8:      .DataTextField("DisplayName")

Line 9:      .BindTo(Model)

Line 10:     .Events(e => e
.Change("autocomplete_change"))

Line 11:     .Placeholder("Select Customer...")

Line 12:     .HtmlAttributes(new {@class = "filter"})

Here is the PartialView 

@using Kendo.Mvc.UI;

@model IEnumerable<OTIS.AppServ.Shared.ViewModels.ddlOptions>

 

 

@(Html.Kendo().AutoComplete()

    .Name(ViewBag.ControlId)

    .Filter("startswith")

    .DataTextField("DisplayName")

    .BindTo(Model)

    .Events(e => e
.Change("autocomplete_change"))

    .Placeholder("Select Customer...")

    .HtmlAttributes(new {@class = "filter"})

     

)

<script>

    function autocomplete_change() {

        var autoContainer = $("#AutocompleteId").data("kendoAutoComplete");

        var result = $.grep(autoContainer.dataSource.data(), function (item) {

        item.Text == autoContainer.value();

        });

    }  

 

</script>

Call from View:

@{ Html.RenderAction("Customers", "ManageDDLs", new { area = "Shared" }); }

Controller:

[ChildActionOnly]

        public ActionResult Customers()

        {

            List<ddlOptions> viewModel = new List<ddlOptions>();

            viewModel = _manageDDLsAppServ.GetCustomersDDLViewModel(_currentCompanyId).ToList();

            ViewBag.ControlId = "customerIdFilter";

 

            return PartialView("_ddlOptionsAutoComplete", viewModel);

        }

[Chad]

Ahhh, my issue here was trying to use a dynamic name

.Name(ViewBag.ControlId)

If you just make this a fixed name, everything works ok. I will post a new question on how to pass in a .Name value.