DropDown in .Net MVC3

Question

I am trying to create a dropdonw in my MVC web application.

Model

namespace projectname.Models 
{
public class DropDownModel
    {
         public int i         


        

Answer 1

I would suggest reading more about MVC. You have nothing rendering the dropdown on your view and you have a model that more or less does the same-thing your listitem is doing. This could be handled by one object instead of two. That said :

Controller

  public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            List listItem = new List();
            DropDownModel drop = new DropDownModel();
            drop.id = 1;
            drop.value = "First";

            listItem.Add(new SelectListItem() { Value = drop.id.ToString(), Text = drop.value });


            return View(listItem);
        }

    }

View Note the @Model List at the top of the view. This defines the strongly typed model asigned to the view. This Model is passed from the controller (listitem) to the view.

@model List

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "title";
}

@Html.DropDownList("name", Model)

title