ASP.NET MVC dropdownlist

Question

Can someone point me to an article that shows the dropdownlist being populated from linq to sql (text and value being set).

Thanks Danny

Answer 1

If you need to add html attributes to your tags this would be a way of doing it. Pass a Model to your View e.i. "return View(someModel)" then in the View:

        
            <% foreach (SelectListItem item in Model.GroupsDropDown)
               {
                   if (item.Selected)
                   {%>
                        
                            <%= item.Text%>
                    <%}
                     else
                    {%>
                        
                            <%= item.Text%>
                    <%} %>
            <% } %>
        

GroupsDropDown is a property in your Model like this:

public IEnumerable GroupsDropDown { get; set; }