How can I convert an enumeration into a List?

Question

i have an asp.net-mvc webpage and i want to show a dropdown list that is based off an enum. I want to show the text of each enum item and the id being the int value that the en

Answer 1

Since MVC 5.1, the most elegant way would be to use EnumDropDownListFor method of Html helper if you need to populate select options in your view:

@Html.EnumDropDownListFor(m => m.MyEnumProperty,new { @class="form-control"})

or GetSelectList method of EnumHelper in your controller:

var enumList = EnumHelper.GetSelectList(typeof (MyEnum));