How to pass the data from IEnumerable data from controller to view in the case below

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I a trying to pass the Ienumerable data from controller to view to populate my dropdownlist.While doing so i have somehow succeded to get the data till the controller.How do i pass it to the view?.I am a bit unaware about the razor syntax as m a rookie fr mvc.
Any help would be really appreciated.

*note Forgive any code abuses.
Thanks.
Model:

XML

public class TS_entryscreen
   {
       public static string connstr = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString;
       SqlConnection connfordata = new SqlConnection(connstr);

      public string Name { get; set; }
    

       public IEnumerable<string> fillalldrp()
   {
        DataTable dtfrfilluser = new DataTable();
        connfordata.Open();
        SqlCommand cmdfruser = new SqlCommand("select (s000_firstname+s000_lastname)as Name  from s000_users", connfordata);
        SqlDataAdapter dafruser = new SqlDataAdapter(cmdfruser);
        connfordata.Close();
        dafruser.Fill(dtfrfilluser);

        List<string> lstusers = new List<string>();
        lstusers = dtfrfilluser.Rows.OfType<DataRow>().Select(dr => dr.Field<string>("Name")).ToList();

        IEnumerable<string> myEnumerable = lstusers;

        return myEnumerable;

   }

Controller:

XML

public ActionResult Index()
      {
          TS_entryscreen tsuser = new TS_entryscreen();
         IEnumerable<string> tsnewuser = tsuser.fillalldrp();
         return View(tsnewuser);
      }

View:

Quote:
@model loginntimesheet.Models.TS_entryscreen
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}
@section featured {

<hgroup class="title">

@Html.DropDownList("Name");

}

Posted 17-Jul-15 21:22pm

Amit Karyekar

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 1 · 2015-07-18T02:52:00

You should really go through a book or on-line tutorials for MVC as you can't learn something from scratch by asking questions on a forum. Your model is defined by what you return from the controller

return View(tsnewuser);

tsnewuser is IEnumerable<string> so your view needs to define that as the model, but you are defining

@model loginntimesheet.Models.TS_entryscreen

So that needs to be

@model IEnumerable<string>

You access the model using "Model" (Model is a special variable that will always be the type defined in @model), so to loop through your strings

C#

foreach (string name in Model)
{
    <p>@name</p>
}

However a drop down comprises of a list of things that have two values, a name and a value, and you also need somewhere to store the selected item, so you can't make a drop down from a list of strings. There is a special structure used to make dropdowns, if you have a look at this there will be some sample code

http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2013/03/11/dropdownlistfor-with-asp-net-mvc.aspx[^]