ViewBag and/or Tempdata not showing

Question

I hard code values into the ViewBag and TempData but they do NOT show in the view.

 

Why?

I am NOT redirecting, just rendering - returning the view name with a model class.

 

Part of the BlogPublishedSelectionCriteria.cshtml view:

 

@model GbngWebClient.Models.BlogPublishedSelectionCriteriaVM

<h2 class="page-header">Blog Selection Criteria</h2>

@{

Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_LayoutUser.cshtml";

}

<p class="alert alert-danger" id="errorMessage">@TempData["errormessage"]</p>

<p class="alert alert-danger" id="errorMessage2">@ViewBag.errormessage</p>

 

The last part of the action method before returning the view:

 

ViewBag.errormessage = "test";

TempData["errormessage"] = "test";

return View("BlogPublishedSelectionCriteria", blogPublishedSelectionCriteriaVM);