Year/Month based Post Archive List With Entity Framework - sql

Question

I want to make a simple Blog Post Archive List like below
2014
January (1)
2013
December (1)
November (14) -> Link to search with date
October (3)
May (5)
April (3)
I need to send this via ViewBag.Archives. When I perform below SQL in SQL Server Management Studio.
select year(Created) as PostYear, datename(month,Created) as PostMonth,count(ID) as ArticleAmount from Post group by year(Created), datename(MONTH,Created) order by PostYear, PostMonth
I get:
PostYear PostMonth ArticleAmount
2010 February 1
2011 September 1
2012 April 1
2012 February 1
2013 February 4
2013 March 1
2014 February 1
My Code:
ViewBag.Archives = db.Posts
.GroupBy(group => new { group.Created.Year, group.Created.Month })
.Select(x => new { count = x.Count(), Year = x.Key.Year, Month = x.Key.Month });
My View:
#foreach (var item in ViewBag.Archives)
{
<p>#item.Year</p>
}
ERROR: Additional information: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Year'
Thank you

Answer 1

Are you looking for something like:
ViewBag.Archives = db.Posts
.GroupBy(group => new {group.Created.Year, group.Created.Month})
.Take(5)
.Select(x => new GuestBookPost()
{
count = x.Count,
Year = x.Key.Created.Year,
Month = x.Key.Created.Month
}).ToList();
EDIT
Use the ToList() on the select :).
Try using an object or a model to store the data in, this will also make is easier to add month names as accessing in the view. Example below, replaced "ObjectName()", with "PostGroup":
public class GuestbookPost {
public int Count { get; set; }
public int Year { get; set; }
public int Month { get; set; }
}
PS: Sorry for the bad formatting, still learning :)