Make a DropDownList with name displayed but the actual values are sent to the View

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I have three classes in MVC4: Main, DST and TZ.

Main has in common two elements: DSTvalue and TZvalue respectively.

I want to make a DropDownList of both DST and TZ with the value of DSTname and TZname displayed but the actual values are sent to the View.

How do I do that?

Posted 6-Jul-14 10:23am

Teledextri

Updated 6-Jul-14 10:37am

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ArunRajendra · Answer 1 · 2014-07-06T17:47:00

This are some of the samples use it depending on our view engine.

ASp.Net
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7142961/mvc3-dropdownlistfor-a-simple-example[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7142961/mvc3-dropdownlistfor-a-simple-example[^]

Razor
http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/javascript/working-with-the-dropdownlist-box-and-jquery/using-the-dropdownlist-helper-with-aspnet-mvc[^]