title: Kendo Grid unable to populate view
body: <p>I am trying to populate a kendo ui grid with data from my database. I cannot find a answer with all the other postings with the same issue. the user does a search using UserId, and To/From Dates. using breakpoints i can see the data coming back through the controller. first time using kendo so if i need to post more information please let me know</p>
  
  <p>Error Message</p>
  
  <pre><code>Compiler Error Message: CS1660: Cannot convert lambda expression to type 'string' because it is not a delegate type
  
  Source Error:
  
  Line 11:     .Columns(columns =&gt;
  Line 12:     {
  Line 13:         columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.ActivityDate).Format("{0:MM/dd/yyyy}");
  Line 14:         columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.Assignment);
  Line 15:         columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.Action);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Controller</p>
  
  <pre><code>[HttpPost]
  public ActionResult ReportsPhoneSupport(ReportsPhoneSupport model)
  {       
      string[] userIds = model.UserId.Split(',');
  
      foreach (string userId in userIds)
      {
          int iUserId = 0;
          if (Int32.TryParse(userId, out iUserId))
          {
              ReportPhoneSupportResultTypedView results = new ReportPhoneSupportResultTypedView();
              RetrievalProcedures.FetchReportPhoneSupportResultTypedView(results, model.FromDate, model.ToDate, iUserId);
          }
      }
  
      return View(model);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>View</p>
  
  <pre><code>@{
      ViewBag.Title = "ReportsPhoneSupport";
   }
  
  &lt;h2&gt;ReportsPhoneSupport&lt;/h2&gt;
  
  @(Html.Kendo().Grid&lt;UtilityWebSite.Controllers.ReportsPhoneSupportController&gt;()
      .Name("grid")
      .Columns(columns =&gt;
      {
          columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.ActivityDate).Format("{0:MM/dd/yyyy}");
          columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.Assignment);
          columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.Action);
          columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.ToFrom);
          columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.Result);
          columns.Bound(m =&gt; m.Description);
      })
      .Pageable()
      .Sortable()
      .Scrollable()
      .Filterable()
      .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "height:430px;" })
      .DataSource(dataSource =&gt; dataSource
          .Ajax()
          .PageSize(20)
          .Read(read =&gt; read.Action("ReportsPhoneSupport", "ReportsPhoneSupport"))
      )
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>CLASS</p>
  
  <pre><code> public class ReportsPhoneSupport
  {
      public string UserId { get; set; }
      public DateTime ToDate { get; set; }
      public DateTime FromDate { get; set; }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
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