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

Now I used Tuple<string, string> but you can convert this to use anything:

var values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(DayOfWeek))
    .Cast<DayOfWeek>()
    .Select(d => Tuple.Create(((int)d).ToString(), d.ToString()))
    .ToList()