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

Write in the view:

@{
TaskManagerContext context = new TaskManagerContext();

IEnumerable CDrop = context.Users.ToList();
List selectList = new List();
foreach (var c in CDrop)
{
    SelectListItem i = new SelectListItem();
    i.Text = c.Username.ToString();
    i.Value = c.ID.ToString();
    selectList.Add(i);
}

}

You can reference it ike that:

@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.UserID,
                          new SelectList(selectList, "Value", "Text"));

You can also choose a specific row:

TaskManagerContext context = new TaskManagerContext();
UsersRepository repo = new UsersRepository();
User user = repo.GetAll().FirstOrDefault(u => u.ID == ViewBag.UserId);
ViewBag.User = user;

@ViewBag.Title1@ViewBag.User.Username