How to pass the value to drop down fields in edit mode in MVC4?

Question

Hi i have three Fields in my view.That three fields are drop down. I want to pass the value to these fields when edit button is clicked. That is the values need to pass to that

Answer 1

You are using a DropDownList(...) instead of a DropDownListFor(...)

Your Model

You must add a SelectList:

public SelectList Employees { get; set }

Your Edit

You must get your employees list and add it to your model:

// Get employees list from the database
var employees = db.Employee.Select(x => x.Id, x.Name).Tolist();

// Put the employees in a SelectList
var selectList = new SelectList(employees .Select(x => new { value = x.Id, text = x.Name }), "value", "text");}).ToList();

// Pass the list to your ViewModel
ObjVisitorsviewModel.Employees = selectList;

Your View

Finally, change your DropDownListFor line for this:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.EmployeeID,
                               model.Employees)

By using DropDownList(...), your object data is not bound to the DropDown. You must manage its selected value manually.