How to populate HTML helper dropdownlist or dropdownlistfor with ienumerable<model>

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I have an IEnumerable<model> model bound to my view and the model contains all plain values. There is no IEnumerable<> value in the model. I need to populate some DropDownList or DropDownListFor with the values from this model. Is there a way that I could populate DropDownList with model property without working in my action method. Here is my model:

@model IEnumerable<kesp.tbl_monitoring>
and my action method is returning value as:

return View(db.tbl_Monitoring.ToList());
Can any one help me, I am stuck and searching from hours, but could not found any solution

What I have tried:

Tried too many options but did not worked for me

Posted 3-Apr-17 19:49pm

Asif_Aziz

Updated 3-Apr-17 23:32pm

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Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 1:54am

which value you want to populate?
a property of each item in the collection?

Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 2:14am

I want to populate four DropdownList in order to filtering data on my view. like all states in my table so that I can filter record of specific state

Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 2:23am

is the states information available in the model ?

Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 2:29am

yes
tbl_Monitoring.state but I am unable to produce an dropdownList on it

Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 2:29am

post the model

Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 2:33am

namespace Kesp
{
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public partial class tbl_Monitoring
{
public long MonitoringId { get; set; }
public Nullable<system.datetime> MonitoringDate { get; set; }
public string Distric { get; set; }
public string Tehsil { get; set; }
public Nullable<int> UnionCouncilId { get; set; }
public string Circle { get; set; }
public string MonitoringOfficerName { get; set; }
public string Designation { get; set; }
public string ProjectName { get; set; }
public Nullable<long> EMISCode { get; set; }
public Nullable<long> ADPCode { get; set; }
}}

Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 2:34am

I need DropDownList on Distric that i called state there

Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 4:52am

ok.

Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 6:18am

This resolved my issue. Thanks a lot

Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 7:46am

welcome :)

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-03T23:32:00

Solution 1

@Html.DropDownList("Distric", new SelectList(Model.Select(k => k.Distric)), "Select Distric");

Posted 3-Apr-17 23:32pm

Karthik_Mahalingam

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Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 6:18am

Thanks bro

Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 7:45am

welcome

Asif_Aziz 4-Apr-17 6:20am

any idea for value and text property

Karthik_Mahalingam 4-Apr-17 7:45am

do you have id property

Asif_Aziz 5-Apr-17 5:09am

yes

Karthik_Mahalingam 5-Apr-17 5:19am

which property?

Asif_Aziz 5-Apr-17 6:11am

public long MonitoringId { get; set; }

Karthik_Mahalingam 5-Apr-17 6:22am

ok i will chk and update you the code.

Karthik_Mahalingam 5-Apr-17 7:09am

@Html.DropDownList("Distric", new SelectList(Model.Select(k => k), "Distric", "MonitoringId"), "Select Distric")

Asif_Aziz 5-Apr-17 7:54am

thanks, I have made some changes in your code and now it is working perfect
@Html.DropDownList("Distric", new SelectList(Model.Select(k => k), "MonitoringId","Distric"), "Select Distric")

Karthik_Mahalingam 5-Apr-17 7:58am

cool

Asif_Aziz 5-Apr-17 7:56am

Please also give me code for DropDownListFor code if it is possible and easy for you. thanks a lot for helping.

Karthik_Mahalingam 5-Apr-17 7:58am

the model is of type Ienumerable, how will you use DropDownListFor